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Microsoft commits to releasing Outlook PST format

This is big news, particularly if you’ve ever tried to convert an OST file to a PST file.

… In order to facilitate interoperability and enable customers and vendors to access the data in .pst files on a variety of platforms, we will be releasing documentation for the .pst file format. This will allow [...]

Equipment Superior To User

I had to change an email account password in CPanel, and I could not get my email client to connect to the mail server.
In the end, I proved that CPanel and my email client were much smarter than me.

This was what I did:

First went in the change password screen:
Hit the generate password button
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I don’t know how they got a TAB into the filename,

but they did.

Had a report from a user of LNME, that LNME was producing an error message, then crashing.

The cause that an message attachment had a TAB character in it’s filename, and Windows wouldn’t accept that, so it would error. (how the TAB got into an attachment name is another question… [...]

How to convert an OST file to a PST file

(if you don’t know what an OST file is, see below)

There are four options, one of these below might work for you. NOTE: This is a work in progress post. It will be updated when I learn something.

The OST2PST conversation method.

Backup ost file(s) Rename outlook.ost to outlook.pst Use scanpst.exe from Outlook [...]

v0.6 is out the door: Lotus Notes Mail Exporter

The major change is that LNME now supports exporting messages from a particular date.

Date to export from Why Sunday, 1 January 1989? Lotus Notes 1.0 was released in 1989, and I’m making the assumption that you won’t have messages older that.

Delayed Write Errors If you get “Delayed Write Errors” from [...]

1 ream of paper = 6% of a tree

Please think before you print: 1 ream of paper = 6% of a tree and 5.4 kg CO2 in the atmosphere, 3 sheets of A4 paper = 1 litre of water

- as seen in a recent email signature.

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Lotus Notes Mail Exporter

is a small program I’ve written to export attachments and emails from the Lotus Notes email client.

Now there are commercial programs which can do the same thing, but since I had a little time on my hands, I wrote LNME. Learnt a bit about Lotus Notes programming at the same time.

It’s [...]

What Lotus Notes email files I backup

Filename Why notes.ini the basic configuration document for Notes desktop5.dsk this file contains the configuration of your workspace or "desktop" names.nsf this is your LOCAL address book, the one that contains all of your personal contacts, location and connection documents any other .nsf these files would be local copies of databases (i.e. your [...]

Spam Matters – How to report spam.

If you believe MessageLabs, 73% of the 0 billion messages it scanned, in February, were unsolicited bulk emails. SPAM in other words!

In Australia:

Under the Spam Act 2003 it is illegal to send, or cause to be sent, unsolicited commercial electronic messages. The Act covers email, instant messaging, SMS and MMS (text and [...]

nPing – Diagnosing Lotus Notes network problems

Lotus Notes client didn’t work at the Frensham Pond Hotel, when I stayed there.

Long story short

Ports 80/443 worked, so I was able to “surf” the web. Port 1352 blocked

How did I know?

I used nPing.exe, and this is what a failure looks like A successful nPing looks like this: (and your [...]

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