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Lotus Notes Push Email and Calendar Sync to iPhone 3G
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Posted by: boltjames

My corporation uses Lotus Notes for email and calendar, and in looking at MobileMe it doesn't look like it is going to support this product.

What I need to do is just this:

1. Have my email pushed to me (not having the iPhone check every few minutes or me having to go to a browser based solution).

2. Have my calendar sync wirelessly (or wired, if that's the only option).

I don't need anything else. No address book needed as I've got the important people already in my personal contacts.

I'm looking for a solution before I go and buy the phone on Friday. If there are websites (paid or free) that offer some sort of 'forwarding' that would feel like 'push' email and 'sync' calendar that's fine. Just need to get at Lotus Notes email and Lotus Notes calendar reliably and see changes within moments of them happening.

TIA

BJ

Posted by: boltjames

Bump. Anybody?

BJ

Posted by: asnpcwiz

One word...search. It's been discussed quite a few times these past couple days alone.

Posted by: mush10

My initial plan is to forward Notes to Mobile Me during the trial phase. Lotus is close to delivering inotes lite for the iPhone which I can log into when I see an important mail. In the interim, I will use the Safari browser to check inotes. Calendar, I am still working on, but I will forward Notes to either Outlook or another calendar that can sync with mobile me and that should than forward to my iPhone. Not perfect, but I expect a Lotus Notes solution for email in the coming months. I will also be keeping my Blackberry for a while to see if this works. Its not perfect, but a start.

Posted by: boltjames

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Originally Posted by mush10

My initial plan is to forward Notes to Mobile Me during the trial phase. Lotus is close to delivering inotes lite for the iPhone which I can log into when I see an important mail. In the interim, I will use the Safari browser to check inotes. Calendar, I am still working on, but I will forward Notes to either Outlook or another calendar that can sync with mobile me and that should than forward to my iPhone. Not perfect, but I expect a Lotus Notes solution for email in the coming months. I will also be keeping my Blackberry for a while to see if this works. Its not perfect, but a start.

Thanks for the response.

Lotus Notes Email - If I'm reading you correctly, you are going to have your email forwarded to MobileMe. Question: Will this be received by your iPhone as a "push" email? Or is it going to have to be pulled down, eat battery life, etc.?

Lotus Notes Calendar - How can you "forward" a Lotus Notes calendar to Outlook or another program? I've looked unsuccessfully for sync programs, but never heard of a "forwarding" option.

Thanks again.

BJ

Posted by: SHoTTa35

ok, the only difference between Exchange AS and POP3 is the "Alert" portion. Exchange uses what's called a "heartbeat" that updates the phone status i think every few minutes. When the server receives an update it sends a message over the semi-active link to the phone to say, "Hey i got a message for you, initiate a sync so you can get the message." Therefore you gotta have your your data connection on and if you close it then it reopens it till your turn off activesync direct-push.

What i had setup is having automatic (direct push) during business hours (peak) and manually or every 60mins during off-peak. I'm not sure if the activesync on the iPhone has those option but on every windows mobile device it does.

Posted by: scotte_taylor

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Originally Posted by boltjames

My corporation uses Lotus Notes for email and calendar, and in looking at MobileMe it doesn't look like it is going to support this product.

What I need to do is just this:

1. Have my email pushed to me (not having the iPhone check every few minutes or me having to go to a browser based solution).

2. Have my calendar sync wirelessly (or wired, if that's the only option).

I don't need anything else. No address book needed as I've got the important people already in my personal contacts.

I'm looking for a solution before I go and buy the phone on Friday. If there are websites (paid or free) that offer some sort of 'forwarding' that would feel like 'push' email and 'sync' calendar that's fine. Just need to get at Lotus Notes email and Lotus Notes calendar reliably and see changes within moments of them happening.

TIA

BJ

If the lotus is used for work, have your IT admin send a copy to your mobile me address and you will get push email, SOL for contacts and cal.

Posted by: boltjames

Update:

My VP of IT just stopped by....

Besides the Notes Server, we also have a Blackberry Server which can provide Lotus Notes email/calendar/contacts to my iPhone.....

Can someone tell me how? Can the iPhone (or MobileMe or something else) talk to the Blackberry Server we own and which is PCI compliant and all that other secure stuff?

TIA

BJ

Posted by: mush10

I have a BES too. There is no way to send that to the iPhone. Perhaps if the BB Thunder fails, we can see Blackberry Connect on the iPhone.

Posted by: boltjames

Quote:

Originally Posted by mush10

I have a BES too. There is no way to send that to the iPhone. Perhaps if the BB Thunder fails, we can see Blackberry Connect on the iPhone.

I read about Companion Link software in another thread that you participated in.

Will that work with either Lotus Server or Blackberry Server? iClink a good solution (or the wired version)?

http://www.companionlink.com/iphone/

BJ

Posted by: mush10

I just thought it was expensive giving the fact something should be coming out. You need to pay to put it on your computer, put it on your phone and still pay 9.99/month to use.

Posted by: boltjames

Update to close the loop on those reading this thread in the future:

Some good news here. I'm using the trial version of CompanionLink and the trial version of MobileMe and Lotus Notes Calendar is syncing perfectly and automatically to my iPhone.

You need:

CompanionLink (the wired version, not the iClink wireless one).
Outlook
MobileMe

CompanionLink gets Lotus Calendar to sync to Outlook Calendar. MobileMe gets Outlook Calendar into the cloud and down to your iPhone, ta-da, it's push calendar.

The only downsides are:

1. Your PC has to be 'on' for the product to work. If you go away for a lengthy business trip, yo have to leave it on the entire time.

2. MobileMe costs money.

Note: In CompanionLink, do not select "iPhone" as your PDA. Instead, choose Outlook. Ask CompanionLink to sync every 15 minutes and do the same with MobileMe.

Thanks to all on Howard's who helped me, and a thank you as well to the CompanionLink customer service people who answered my questions thoroughly.

BJ

Posted by: bubbameat

Thanks for this. It is working for me for the most part.