Anyone use Lotus Notes? A question

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I use Lotus Notes (LN) at work. I have a ton of archived emails that I’d like to find some inventive way to have forwarded to my non-work email.

Let’s say “Person X” over the past 5+ years has sent me a lot of emails, almost all of which are archived. Is there a way in the archived mail file that I can have it search for all those emails and forward them all individually?

I tried just selecting all the emails from Person X and then hit Forward, but you get one email with all the messages embedded in it and it has no flow of conversations. I don’t want to select each email individually and forward it, but I’ll do so if I have to.

Any thoughts?

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Not exactly solving your problem but in Windows and Outlook you can copy your Archive and PST files to a disk or jump drive. Just do a search on your machine for all files that have the .pst extension. Search function (*.pst) typed as seen with out the () will locate all files of that type. Should only be a few.
If you do a web search for the equivalent to this for lotus notes I bet you could get it to work.

Good luck,

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Thanks, I’m going to try that. The objective is to get all the emails in my Gmail account, not sure if I can do that via saved emails or not.

I have come up with a solution I think though. I’m going to make a rule in LN to have all emails put in a particular folder forwarded to my other email, then I’ll just move all the emails into that folder and hope for the best.

If that doesn’t work, I try saving 'em. Thanks.

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I could geek out with lots of ramble…but let me ask you this first:

  1. Is your company larger than 500 employees?
  2. Define your use of the term “archiving”. Are you simply putting in a specific folder or do you “truly” have a archiving ultilty folder? If you don’t know the difference…my guess is that you’ve just set up a folder in which you place certain items. If it is truly a mail archive, you need to convert back to mail.
  3. Is your mail available offline?
  4. Does your company allow you to download 3rd party software?

Lotus Notes mail resides in a .nsf file (for the most part). This is both a good and bad situation.

You have several options, but it really depends upon the way your Notes environment is set-up.

I’m sure you’re already aware of this, but DO NOT keep/use personal email at work!!!