How often do you hear that the business is discussing moving mail platforms because “our users want X” where X is nothing to do with the server and everything to do with the client UI. Domino remains the best mail server available but often user dissatisfaction drives a move and that comes from being asked to use the wrong client or from a bad deployment. If you’re using Domino you have an ever expanding range of clients to choose from browsers, iNotes, Verse, Traveler with iOS integration, Android applications, POP3 and IMAP. Come to this session to learn how to find the right client to fit the business and keep your Domino infrastructure.

1. 15 September 2016
Domino in the back
Party in the front
Gabriella Davis Technical Director
The Turtle Partnership
gabriella@turtlepartnership.com

2. Who Am I?
Admin of all things and especially quite
complicated things where the fun is
Working with security , healthchecks,
single sign on, design and deployment of
Domino, ST, Connec>ons and things that
they talk to
Stubborn and relentless problem solver
Lives in London about half of the >me
gabriella@turtlepartnership.com
twiDer: gabturtle
Awarded the first IBM Life>me
Achievement Award for Collabora>on
Solu>ons

3. Almost No-One
Is Complaining
About Domino

4. ✤ Are IBM updating Notes?
✤ Our users want a web mail client like Google
✤ IBM keep saying we should move to the cloud
✤ We no longer have an IT department to support the
Notes client
✤ We need Outlook because we’ve bought X and it
won’t integrate with Notes
✤ We’re thinking of moving to Google / O365 because
our users like the client

5. Do not go on the
offence

6. Do not go on the
offence
or the defence

7. and definitely not this…

8. Care About Features Not Numbers

9. Domino InThe Back
DOMINO
also known as
THE BEST MAIL SERVER IN THE WORLD

10. Party InThe Front
DOMINO
also known as
THE BEST MAIL SERVER IN THE WORLD
Verse On Premise iNotes Outlook Notes
Verse Mobile
Traveler
on iOS ,
Android, Windows
iNotes Lite
iOS Mail
POP Mail IMAP Mail

11. Choosing A Client
✤ First talk to the business about
✤ What they don’t like in their current setup
✤ What they feel is missing
✤ What drives them crazy
✤ What would make their job easier

12. The difference
between this

13. The difference
between this
& this

14. The difference
between this
& this
isTHIS

15. The difference
between this
& this
✤ client choice
✤ configuration
✤ training
isTHIS

16. There is no single option that suits everyone
Domino is the only mail server out there that lets you choose
the right client for each part of the business
.. and not just one client either. Users can switch between
clients seamlessly because the data source is the same
regardless

17. The Notes Client
✤ It’s served us well for over 20 years
✤ no-one least of all IBM will claim that Notes is the
mail client you should choose
✤ it still does things better than other mail clients
✤ but if all you’re doing is mail … well there are better
options

18. WhyWe LoveThe Notes Client
✤ Searching / Full Text Index
✤ Mail In Databases
✤ Replication
✤ Offline working
✤ It was ahead of its time. But have people moved on?

19. . and it’s not going away
✤ IBM continue to update the client
✤ there are thousands upon thousands of Notes client apps out
there
✤ there is also the ICAA (formerly Notes Browser Plug In)
✤ BUT it’s a big install and a lot of client management if all you
want is mail and calendar
✤ what light browser clients have taught us is that people will
accept less and simpler over more

20. iNotes & iNotes Lite

21. iNotes is a full featured browser based mail and
calendaring client. Visually it’s very similar to the
Notes client
Includes contacts, notes, sametime integration, todos,
OOO and delegation
For phones with small screens, iNotes has a “lite” mode
to minimise real estate but that also has less
functionality in that mode

24. What DoYou Need?
✤ Domino
✤ Configured with HTTP
✤ make that HTTPS with a good strength SSL
certificate
✤ Web Redirection database

25. Any Mail Client

26. POP and IMAP are protocols for collecting mail
Most mail clients support both POP and IMAP
Domino supports both
You can configure any mail client you want to retrieve your mail
via either of these protocols
IMAP is more full featured and offers folder synchronisation for
example

27. If POP & IMAP collect mail - how does your preferred
client send it?
It uses SMTP. any SMTP. it can be Domino. or in front
of Domino

28. If there’s a mail client someone specifically wants to use
POP/IMAP + SMTP will let them do that with
Domino continuing to host the mail databases
POP and IMAP don’t offer the range of services you get
from an Enterprise mail server such as OOO,
delegations and free time lookups

30. What DoYou Need?
✤ Any mail client that supports IMAP or POP3 (so
basically any mail client)
✤ Domino configured for secure authenticated IMAP or
POP3
✤ An authenticating SMTP relay
✤ Domino or something in front of Domino

31. Traveler

32. No matter your mobile device of choice* Traveler on your
Domino server paired with the Traveler, Verse or native apps
provide integrated mail , calendar, contacts , todos and
encrypted mail
*ok there are some exceptions

34. What DoYou Need?
✤ The Traveler add-in for Domino
✤ DB2 for high availability across multiple servers
✤ HTTPS
✤ The Traveler app or, on iOS, the native mail and
calendar apps

35. Mail For Microsoft Outlook

36. Standard Outlook client and UI supporting application plugins
Syncs with Domino server for mail, calendar, contacts etc
Delegation and OOO supported
Offline mode and offline syncing
Outlook mail merge, search and filtering supported

38. What DoYou Need?
✤ Add-in to your Domino server
✤ a variant of Traveler which runs as the Traveler task
✤ supports High Availability and DB2 or Derby db source
✤ Separate client add-in for Outlook which supports 32bit and 64bit
versions and releases 2010, 2013, 2016
✤ HTTPS on the server for syncing
✤ Mail file quotas and policies
✤ ID Vault

39. Verse On Premise

40. IBM’s next generation lightweight browser based mail client
First in the cloud soon to be on premise (VOP)
This should be your default client going forwards
Intelligent analysis or mail, actions and behaviour
Currently in Beta 1, very limited access*
*thank you to Barry Rosen for letting me break NDA and show this

42. What DoYou Need?
✤ Domino
✤ Verse library files / add in
✤ Configured for HTTPS
✤ Connections Files & Profiles
✤ if you really want to get the most from Verse

43. Domino InThe Back
✤ Domino remains the best mail server in the world
✤ It supports more mail clients and standards than any other
✤ You don’t have to pick one client
✤ All clients use the same mail db stored on Domino
✤ DAOS, FT indexing, Replication, Clustering, DBMT -
everything server based continues and continues to be
enhanced

44. Verse Desktop + Traveler on mobile
Notes client + iNotes lite on the phone
Most users on Verse with some using both that and Outlook
for custom applications
Whatever Mac or Linux client you want plus Traveler for
Android

45. Party InThe Front
DOMINO
also known as
THE BEST MAIL SERVER IN THE WORLD
Verse On Premise iNotes Outlook Notes
Verse Mobile
Traveler
on iOS ,
Android, Windows
iNotes Lite
iOS Mail
POP Mail IMAP Mail