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I would LOVE to use Outlook. I’m sure I’d love other mail clients even more; it’s just that we use Lotus Notes.

• sk5t 6y ago
  The Notes ("Domino") server comes with an IMAP "task" in the Notes parlance; maybe your admin has allowed that to run? It was always kind of funny that the thing Notes was the worst at--being a mail client--was also its primary function at a lot of organizations.
  • filoeleven 6y ago
    There is a web client we can use; I forgot about that until you mentioned IMAP. If it’s got sane text editing and an OK calendar, I might be able to switch to it. I was taken aback when I first found out the Notes client app is a customized Eclipse build.
    • sk5t 6y ago
      I remember Domino Web Access as being kind of okay, but weird, and never a credible challenger to Outlook. It emerged around the time I had less and less exposure to Notes things; there was also a sort of minified, desktop Notes/Domino server ("DOLS") that could replicate web apps locally for offline use and synchronize when back online. Wild stuff! As for Eclipse, it's more like IBM found a way to wedge Notes (written in C) into an Eclipse wrapper, likely fueled by the early-aughts mania to make everything a portal/portlet. Some other apps have used Eclipse as a host, DBeaver for example. Although I believe DBeaver is principally written in Java.