Lotus Notes as POP3 Client....Rules not working

Mohan Sagar

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Jul 30, 2002, 1:59:59 AM7/30/02

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Hi
I installed the Lotus Notes as POP3 Client to download mails from the
Internet. As i subscribed to many News letters the amount of mail i
receive is massive. I was using Outlook Express and i defined rules to
move the mails to the respective i created. I would like to do the same
in lotus Notes so i defined the rules and it is not working. I tried
various different combination but stiill the same.

I tested the rules with Lotus Notes Connecting to the domino Server and
it is working fine. i tried indexing , compacting but still not able to
make it work.

please give me the points i am missing and help me to make it work.

Thanks
Mohan Sagar
rms...@vsnl.net

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David Martin

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Jul 30, 2002, 5:08:48 AM7/30/02

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In article <2751f3956406708ab0806e27b958ab3b.104411
@mygate.mailgate.org>, rms...@vsnl.net says...

> please give me the points i am missing and help me to make it work.

Rules only work when mail comes through the Domino server. They are
examined and run by the router task on the server. Your client is
pulling the mail directly from a POP account and the Domino server isn't
involved. You can't make rules work in the situation you describe.

David Martin
DynaComp Solutions
http://DynaComp-Solutions.com

NEwZ

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Jul 30, 2002, 3:09:33 PM7/30/02

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I am not quite sure about that... the rule agents are in the users mail I
believe.
so the minute there is a new mail
the agent should run and file it.. the filing is done on the user database
not on the server..

anyway I have read that there a various problems with the rules in the mail
files..

Anybody else can comment on this?

:)

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David Martin

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Jul 30, 2002, 3:35:54 PM7/30/02

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In article <ai6o9c$oij$1...@knossos.btinternet.com>, Ne...@Astra.Jup says...

> I am not quite sure about that... the rule agents are in the users mail I
> believe.

They are STORED there. The router on the Domino server looks for them
when it is processing mail for you. The client doesn't run them. They
are simply documents like everything else in your mail DB.

> so the minute there is a new mail the agent should run and file it..
> the filing is done on the user database not on the server..

Major difference between rules and an agent. You CAN write an agent to
do what you want to but don't confuse it with mail file rules. And you
can have the agent run in/against your local mail DB where you are
depositing your POP mail.

> anyway I have read that there a various problems with the rules in the mail
> files..

Such as?

NewZ

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Jul 31, 2002, 6:37:24 AM7/31/02

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So are you telling me that the domino router does the filling of incoming
mail on the user end?

If that's the case then I don't know!

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David Martin

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Jul 31, 2002, 7:03:20 AM7/31/02

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In article <z5P19.3$u8....@news.lhr.globix.net>, Ne...@no.cd says...

> So are you telling me that the domino router does the filling of incoming
> mail on the user end?

Of Domino mail yes. Of POP mail no. POP mail is retrieved by the
client and the Domino server doesn't come into the picture at all.
Heck, you can use the client as a POP client with no Domino server at
all anywhere.