Notes / Domino by Sean Cull 

Domino Oddness on Azure - 38 second delay in sending mail from web UI  

By Sean Cull | 11/22/22, 10:43 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

We have had an odd issue on Domino that we have not been able to resolve despite lots of input from HCL. I just wanted to post it in case any other person comes across it. The symptom is a Domlog entry for 38 seconds when you trigger an email via XPages. This happened @4 years ago on an Azure Linux Domino 9 server ( which we scrapped ) and then started again with an Azure Windows Domino 11 server about a year ago.

Source Control Disables Some Scheduled Agents in IBM Notes  

By Sean Cull | 10/20/17, 10:06 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Just a quick heads up about something that is known about but still catches me out from time to time. It may even be fixed in the latest versions but I can’t find any IBM tech notes on it.

ICONUK and the State of Domino Web Development  

By Sean Cull | 9/16/16, 6:58 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

I am just back from a very impressive ICONUK. I can honestly say that it was the best LUG that I have been to. The best part for me was the informal discussions within the community. It is a time of change and the community discussions were real, interesting and honest.

Domino KYRTool and SSL / TLS under Notes 9.02 - Positive Impressions  

By Sean Cull | 5/20/15, 9:47 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

Last year IBM got into a bit of a pickle when the Poodle Exploits hit and there was no support for SSLV3 in domino. At the time we moved to putting Apache Proxy Servers in front off all of our web facing servers. I needed to deploy a new XWorks server for a customer or our “Knowledge Directory” product and we wanted to do some LDAP integration.

Configuring Mandrill to work with Domino for SMTP routing  

By Sean Cull | 5/15/15, 4:18 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

Mandrill is a cloud service which is used to ensure that transactional emails such as password resets get through to end users without falling foul of spam filters. We have had to move to using this with our SaaS XPage apps as it seems to be increasingly difficult to get the Microsoft to play nice when they seem to arbitrarily block our traffic.

Solved : Quirk with Domino and Relay Hosts which redirect  

By Sean Cull | 5/15/15, 11:58 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

This took me 4 hours to suss out so I hope that this helps someone else. If you set up a Relay Host in IBM Domino and are using authentication and it doesn’t work then read on. The first sign of an issue is that the emails just stay in the mail.box. Enable SMTPCLIENTDEBUG=1 ( yes I know it says client but it works on the server ).

Solved : UNIK Table : itemdef.exe Cannot store document - database has too many unique field names  

By Sean Cull | 2/10/15, 3:59 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Johnny Oldenburger

I recently got this message when trying to replicate a Lotus Notes / XPage database that I had been working on. I had already ticked the “Allow More fields in database” option. The application does use documents with programmatically generated fields but when I ran some code to count the notesitems in the documents the largest document had 750 fields.

Solving the SSL V3 / SHA-2 / TLS / MD5 / Poodle problem on Linux – Part 3 – Converting a Domino SSL certificate / Private Key to Apache  

By Sean Cull | 10/22/14, 4:12 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Note that the easiest option to install a verified SSL certificate into the Apache server is to buy a new one. However, if you have a copy of Windows XP handy you can convert your existing Domino SSL certificates to Apache certificates with the following scheme.

Adding dictionaries to IBM Notes 851 + using the widget catalog  

By Sean Cull | 6/12/13, 12:41 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Niklas Heidloff

I helped a customer to install some extra dictionaries today. It should be straight forward and is actually not too bad once you get it working ( Irish logic there ).

Installing Domino 8.5.3 UP1 FP3 on CentOS / RHEL 6.3 64 bit  

By Sean Cull | 12/3/12, 4:39 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Per Henrik Lausten

Cheat Sheet for installing Domino 8.5.3 UP1 FP3 on CentOS / RHEL 6.3 64 bit