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iPhone call to action – Please contribute

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Well after the previous post where I displayed my dismay at the lack of any Lotus Notes “enterprise” support for the upcoming iPhone, I was (rightly) chastised by famed Lotus defender (and friend of mine), John Head for just bitching and not doing anything. I was also informed by Ed Brill (like he states on his blog) that we, as customers, need to let Apple know there is a demand for this. So fine. I’m doing something.

I posted Please Support Lotus Notes as an Enterprise Platform on the Apple forums. Please jump in and add in your two cents if at all possible.

Next, I signed the petition that Nathan set up asking for Lotus Notes support on the iPhone.

Also, for the heck of it, email Steve Jobs. It may do nothing if one or two of us do, but if 500-1000 do, maybe so. sjobs@apple.com is the address. Have fun, and BE NICE about it.

Happy now John?

Don’t forget IdeaJam either!

iPhone Enterprise Support

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Enterprise support: as we explained earlier, full Exchange support. All secure VPN, everything everyone’s asked for is built-in. We’re on exactly the right track, we can now check off enterprise support.

-Steve Jobs 6/9/2008 on the announcement of iPhone 2.0

Interesting, they can now “check off enterprise support.” That’s wonderful news, wonderful news indeed… [sigh]

IBM? Anything? I know I’m being a Mac fanboy here, but c’mon…

Winmail.dat? Domino 8 or Julian to the rescue!

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After my last post, I heard from a couple people that didn’t know that Domino 8 (EDIT: 7.0.2 FP2 as well – thanks Chris) can convert those winmail.dat files into something useful for you. It’s simple to enable by editing the notes.ini, although I think it should be an option in the server document. Anyway, to enable the conversion on a Domino 8 server, add the following line to your notes.ini file:

TNEFEnableConversion=1

EDIT: Also, I forgot to mention that you only need to do so on your incoming SMTP server, it will convert there and deliver through your environment. (thanks Thomas)

Now, if you aren’t on Domino 8 (or 7.0.2 FP2) yet, you can still add code to your mail template to allow users to extract data from those pesky winmail.dat files. Julian Robichaux has the WinmailExtractor project over at OpenNTF to help you out!