Day: March 23, 2008

Retrieve POP3 Mail With Domino Server Addin

The Domino addin task POP3Collect reads messages from one or more POP3 servers andThe Domino addin task POP3Collect reads messages from one or more POP3 servers and sends them to Domino server or any other compatible SMTP server).

The addin task is entirely written in Java and should therefore run on any Domino 6+ server platform and processor architecture supported by the Domino JVM. It is written and published by Andy Brunner from notesnet.ch.

The addin comes with a short but good installation manual. I installed and configured POP3Collect in less than 5 Minutes. Although the addin pretends to be “Freeware”, The installation will expire on 30-Apr-2008. Never the less I will give it a try …


Domino 8.0.1 – Design / Document Compression

Compress Design / Documents
I’ve recently updated 2 Domino servers from version 7.0.3 to version 8.0.1. Both server are hosting 600 mail files. The filesize varies from 30MB up to 10GB. Hence one of the server nearly went out of available disk space, I enabled database design and document data compression, which is a new feature in Domino 8.0.1.

To use this feature, the NSF must be ODS 48. To upgrade the database to ODS 48, enter the following setting in your NOTES.INI file:

Create_R8_Databases=1

For the Notes client mail template (MAIL8.NTF), this setting is enabled by default and the design is compressed when the mail database is created. For all other databases or if you update from a previous Domino version and keep the design of your mail files, you must manually enable the setting and then run a copy style compact on the database.

It took about 48 hours to compress all mail files. The results of the compression are listed in the picture below:

Compress Statistics

170GB freed space is a good result. This is 170GB less data to backup. What is your experience with the new Domino database design and document data compression?