April 3rd, 2007
Local Mail - Part 1
Do you access your Lotus Notes mail on a server or on your local machine?
I bet many Lotus Notes users don't know the answer, or even what that question means. I intend to use the next few tips to show you how to set up Lotus Notes to access your mail on your local machine, resulting in much faster response times, thus a more productive and enjoyable experience.
Today we'll start with a simple overview. In the picture below, we see a user reading their email. In this case Lotus Notes is configured to open their mail file on their Domino server.
Now in this second picture, Lotus Notes is configured to open the person's mail file directly from their own computer. Typically this is much faster, since the information does not have to travel over the network to be displayed.
This second scenario is called using a local replica, and over the next few tips I'll show you how to set this up.
If you would like to read a little more background information on this, see these two blog entries:Replication and Local-replication.
