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Lotus iNotes...is it really that slow?

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by smksensei

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My enterprise is preparing to roll-out Lotus iNotes (which is barely out of beta!) to about 3000 remote (laptop)users. Preliminary testing has proven that its client interface is incredibly slow. (like 2-5 minutes to open an email?) We've tried numerous tweaks and system changes, and are using machine with either Win95 or Win2k and have found little difference in results.

Anybody out there with experience with Lotus (web-based and DOLS) iNotes?

There is an incredible famine of information dealing directly and specifically with the iNotes client product. Thanks for anyone who will even raise their hand with a vote of experience.

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by lordinfidel

Most companies do not choose to go down in mail exhangers.

From my experience with notes, it's a lousy gateway.

I would much rather use sendmail or eudora then lotus notes.

**It's the end of the day and I am feeling cranky**

I would of have never spent my companies money on notes. Actually when we switched over from sendmail 2 years ago, notes was not even in the running.

Fine, we are a NT shop. But I have yet to see a mail exchanger as robust and easy to use as Exchange. Fineit's pricey. But under the guidance of a nimble admin. It will run forever. It's easily scalable and is probably hands down the best and most thought out product that M$ ever came out with.

Exchange my friend...Exchange.

by nicknielsen

...but can it be secured? Even discounting the hype by 75%, I've not heard much good about Exchange security.

by lordinfidel

There are holes in every product out there. Including Notes, exchange and yes even send mail. (Huge holes in send mail)

But with some good security strategies they can be relatively secured.

Relaying is easily closed off in exch 5.5 sp2 or higher.

The rule of thumb is to only allow certain traffic to your mail server. Basically we close off all traffic to our mailserver other than smtp traffic. Employed IPSec filters on the interface as an additional measure. (win2k is nice with that feature)

You can do the same on a linux box.

You can force exch to only accept ssl connections and can specify it as an inbound/outbound only server. There is a lot you can do with exch. It is an incredibly flexible mail server.

I have always contended that exch was the best product that M$ ever made.

But like every other product out there, it is only as good as the person using it.

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