AboutPaski K. Paskaradevan Expertise I have 3 + years in Lotus Notes application development. I am a CLP R5 Application Development. I can answer any question pertaining to application development.
Experience R5 CLP. In addition, I have a bachelors degree in Engineering and a MBA.
Expert: Paski K. Paskaradevan Date: 12/2/2007 Subject: Add menu to lotus notes and access it suign lotus script
Question QUESTION: Hi,
My name is Govardhan, i had mailed u few days back about a addin. I am new to Lotus Notes and i had few queries, i wanted to know how to add a menu item to lotus notes user interface and use that menu item to set a flag value which i can use later. This flag is used when ever a user send a new mail to some one. I will check this flag value and if this flag is set then i have to save a copy of the mail being sent to my local hard disk with all the details like from, to , body, cc, bcc, attachments. Can i do this. Is it possible.
Can u please help me and let me knw how can i do it.
It would be great if u can take put some time and help me out. Waiting for ur response.
Thanks,
Regards,
Govardhan
ANSWER: Hi,
Why do you want to save a copy of the mail on your hard drive when keeping it in the mail file works without any additional programming?
I understand that you are new to notes and your willingness to explore possibilities. But I draw the line when it comes to ridiculous requests from the users who wants things done. This is one of them.
I would strongly suggest that you talk to those who gave you the requirement and convince them that this will be a waste of time and money.
Keep the mail in the notes mail box and it will be very secure and easy to get it whenever you need it.
Regards.
Paski
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QUESTION: Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I know its not good to keep all the mails on to the local hard drive. But my actual requirement is to make a copy of all these mail to the remote database. i thought i follow up with a question once i get to know how to first get a access to the mails.
My requirement is like this :
I want to make a copy of all the mails along with the attachemts that are being sent from any client machine to a remote database. This copy is needed for some processing.
It would be great if u can take out some time and help me. I know i might be offtrack.
Thanks for the help
Waiting for ur reply
Regards,
Govardhan
Answer Hi,
Write a lotus script agent and use Copytodatabase method to copy documents to the remote database. This will copy the entire document (attachements and all) to the remote database (as long as the remote database is a notes database).
