Category: E-mail
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Resolving "An Error Was Encountered While Opening A Window" errors
Lotus Notes has a plethora of more or less (usually the latter) legible and understandable error messages. One of them I encountered the other day. The situation is as follows: a client of mine told me Notes had crashed, and she was now unable to restart Notes due to a rather cryptic error message: “An…
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Sametime: Resolving "There was an error opening a chat session…" errors
I recently encountered the following error message when trying to initiate a chat session with a colleague. Apparently, the error “0x80000005” means “The element is non-existent”. What happens is that when I tried to initialize a chat with my colleague, the Sametime client tries to open a Sametime channel to this user. It…
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Lotus Notes 8 – ‘A Runtime Error has occurred. Do you wish to Debug?’
I’ve had a few cases of users running into this error message in Lotus Notes 8.0.1: The problem is tied to the embedded version of IBM’s instant messaging system Sametime, and has been reliably reproduced in any of the following conditions: Initiating a chat session Clicking the telephone icon Receiving a chat…
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Reducing spam – the advantage to having a top level domain
I post comments in many blogs, and for a while, I had a serious problem that whenever I posted my comment with my emailadress, I’d soon see a marked increase in spammail. This all really cleared up when I actually got my own top level domain, razumny.no, and here’s how: Once the domain was…
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Syncronising Lotus Notes Calendar with Google Calendar
At work, I use IBM’s Lotus Notes as my primary email and calendar client. It works well enough, but there are some issues. My main problem with it though, is that syncronising calendar data with Google Calendar is nigh on impossible, at least out of the box. Finding this annoying, I talked to a…
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Resolving problems with GMail Notifier when you’ve set GMail default to HTTPS
If you’ve fixed the security problem described in my last post, you might have noticed that the GMail Notifier no longer works. It seems Google have also seen this problem occur, and they’ve even made a patch for it. Here’s how to get it, and how to apply it. Happy patching! Download the patch (.zip).…
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Stoppering GMail’s default security problem
At this year’s DefCon, a security problem inherent to the default settings in GMail was unveiled. The problem is that, by default, GMail does not use encrypted sessions. This can be a problem if you use public computers, because the session key might be retrievable. With the session key in hand, access is apparently simple…
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Learning to love Notes’ .NTF files
Lotus Notes is very wary of its database files, also known as .NSF-files, becoming corrupted. So much so, in fact that IBM has created a whole class of files designed to recreate these files. This class of files is called .NTF files. NSF is an abbreviation of Network Storage Facility, and each, or at any…
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Doing too much with a single piece of software
I have written about Lotus notes before. I have written about solutions to problems, and to what I like and/or dislike about it. My main problem with Lotus Notes is a combination of two; on the one side, it has major usability issues, though these are adressed, to some degree, in version 8. My main…
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Lotus Notes: Resolving “Toolbar configuration not found” errors
A user called in with an error message I see from time to time in Lotus Notes. The error message in question is the not very informative “Toolbar configuration not found”. Though not overly informative, this error message is simple enough to resolve. This error message is sometimes, though not always, followed by a second…