Lotus Goats

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After three and a half years of using whatever mail client I wanted 
that accepted IMAP v4 I'm now at a new gig where the corporate mail 
standard is Lotus Notes. Lotus Notes Blows Goats, get it?

First and foremost, in the day and age of GUI mail clients one would 
expect that when you drag-and-drop a file into a message-compose window 
it would attach that file. No, not in Lotus Notes. It EMBEDS the file 
if it is a Word or HTML file or some such, making a message nearly 
unreadable or un-editable if you're sending a large document.

Then, if you drag-and-drop a document into Notes, it embeds and becomes 
slow. Windows XP surprisingly and correctly reports "Not Responding." 
Although Window's Task Manager does not have the beauty of 'kill(1)' I 
can easily close out Notes. That's fine, except there is a ntlhplr.exe 
(or similar) program running in the background which does directory 
lookups for Notes. That's all fine and dandy, but upon restarting Notes 
it will fail to start, claiming that there is a lock-file in use and 
that the only way to fire-up Notes is to log-out or reboot. Using my 
magic powers gleaned by Google I found the advice I needed to find the 
ntlhlpr.exe process (or whatever it's called) and was able to kill that 
and successfully restart Notes without having to logout, quit what I 
was working on, or lose my ssh sessions to many hosts actually doing 
stuff.

Wait until I start commenting about Siebel.

• Lotus Goats Jonathan Katz 01:13 on 31 Jan 2004
  • Re: Lotus Goats peter (Peter da Silva) 14:59 on 31 Jan 2004
    • too deep to show
  • David H. Adler 21:11 on 02 Feb 2004

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