June 23rd, 2008
Revisting Accessing Your Mail Locally
A while ago I started a series of tips with the intent of explaining how to access your email from the hard drive of your own computer, instead of on the server over the network. This is called "working locally", or "using a local mail file replica". Working this way provides benefits in speed, searching, off-line access, and more.
I wrote the first two tips
Local Mail - Part 1: Explaining Local vs. Server, and
Local Mail - Part 2: Checking the size of your mail file
but then I got side tracked as I tend to do! Then last week I was helping an IBM colleague with their mail, and we discovered that while they thought they were using their email locally, they actually were not. I bet this is a very common situation, so I was motivated to get back to writing about this.
Here are the topics I plan on writing about to round out the series...
Local Mail - Part 3: Creating your new local mail file.
Local Mail - Part 4: Configuring Lotus Notes to use the local replica.
Local Mail - Part 5: Configuring the schedule for when Lotus Notes will check for new mail.
Local Mail - Part 6: Tying it all together.
