CONFIGURING NOTES CONNECTOR OPTIONS
To configure the list of Lotus Notes parameters as seen on your screen, do the following
procedure:
- Select your default MIME encoding from the drop-down list. When encoding Lotus Notes messages, NOTESOUT uses
the MIME encoding information configured into the Internet Exchange (see MIME table configurations for details).
When a non-Macintosh file with an unknown or non-existent extension is encountered, it is encoded using the default
binary encoding. You must choose the appropriate entry based upon the capabilities of those sites to which the gateway
communicates most of the time. Base64 is preferable for communicating with MIME-capable sites. UUENCODE should
be specified as the default encoding method if Internet Exchange will communicate with non-MIME compliant sites.
However, since UENCODE/UUDECODE are not part of the MIME specification, their widespread use are being discouraged.
- Select your addressing separator from the drop-down list. The allowed entries are the dot (.) and
underscore (_). When constructing Internet addresses for Lotus Notes users without an explicit entry in the Directory
Server, all spaces are usually converted to underscores. Since some sites prefer to use dots instead of underscores,
this option allows the administrator to choose between the two. Following are some examples of how an email address
for someone named John Doe is registered in the Notes Mail Server: John_Doe or John.Doe.
NOTE:
- If an existing separator is found in the name to be translated, this will be doubled. For example, if the separator
in use is the underscore: John_Doe becomes John__Doe.
- Spaces are not valid in Internet mail addresses.
- Specify a value for the
Return receipt header
option. Using the default value of
Return-receipt-to:
allows compatibility with the older versions of the UNIX Sendmail program and the Lotus SMTPLINK product. However,
there are problems involved with this approach. Sendmail uses the header to request a notification of message
delivery at the transport level, while SMTPLINK uses it to signify that the message has been opened (and possibly read)
by the recipient. Choosing a different value will not only solve this problem but, will also ensure that the
return-receipt function is portable only between the Internet Exchange Notes Connector that uses the same value.
- Specify your desired Uuencode tag
header. By default, Internet Exchange generates MIME uuencode messages with x-uue in the Content-transfer-encoding
header. However, it has been reported that some email agents require x-uuencode in their header instead.
- Set the MIME Preamble File
option. MIME messages contain an optional MIME preamble area, where a short message useful to non-MIME gateways and
user agents can be stored. This section resides between the RFC822 headers and the first MIME body part.
If this option is set to point to an existing file, the contents of this file will be used as the MIME preamble in
outgoing messages. If this option is disabled or set to a non-existent file, no preamble is used.
- Set the Bounce Sender option.
When a message is bounced, the user defined in this field will receive a bounced notification message for undeliverable
mail generated by the MTA. The default value of the Postmaster
(MAILER-DAEMON), is highly recommended.
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Specify the RFC 822 Header Placement option.
This option determines where the RFC822 headers will be attached from an incoming message.
It can be attached at the top or at the bottom of the message body.
- Enter your preferred value for the
Tab expansions
(spaces equivalent) option.
The number of spaces used to replace a single tab. For example, if this parameter is configured to 8, eight spaces will be
used instead of a tab for all incoming text messages. A value of zero indicates no tab expansion will be used.
Enable the Keep as AppleSingle
option. Selecting this option keeps inbound Macintosh file attachments in AppleSingle format after decoding.
Enable the
Extract data fork
option. Selecting this option allows the complete data fork usage of the Macintosh file attachment after decoding.
Enable the
Convert to MacBinary
option. Selecting this option allows the conversion of the decoded MAC MIME file attachment to MacBinary II format
before it is exported to the Notes server.
NOTE:
You can only select one option.
Tick the check box of the RFC1522 Support if you wish to enable this option otherwise, leave it blank.
When this option is enabled, NOTESOUT encodes any message header containing non-ASCII as defined by RFC1522
(MIME part II, Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text).
Select your preferred encoding method from the pull-down menu.
This option allows the administrator to choose between Quoted-printable(QP)
or Base 64
for encoding non-ASCII characters in headers. We suggest that you use the
Quoted-printable
option if the Messaging Server is to handle European characters, while
Base 64
should be used on Japanese or any double-byte character set environments.
Set the Warning if empty message
option. This option prompts empty outbound messages to trigger a warning to the local postmaster. The warning text is:
Warning:
Your message went out the Lotus Notes mail server with an empty message body. If you intentionally sent an empty
message, disregard this warning. If you included a reply in a previous header body part, the message was purged. Key
headers from the messages sent will follow.
Set the Try reverse separator
option. This option allows both address separators (dot/underscore) to be tried for incoming addresses during default
address translation. This is useful if the local site changes its preferred separator and still prefers addresses with
the old separator to be valid.
Set the Include RFC822 headers
option. During a normal operation, the Internet Exchange Messaging Server discards RFC822 headers after they have been
processed. This option allows such headers to be added to incoming messages as pop-up text in the Notes mail body.
Set the Include MIME headers
option. In a normal operation, Internet Exchange Messaging Server discards MIME bodypart headers after they have been
processed. All MIME headers will be included by activating this option. This is not normally required, but it can be
useful if the incoming message type cannot be identified. A pop-up text will be added for each MIME bodypart in the
Notes mail body.
Set the Use Reply-to header
option. This option makes use of the
Reply-to:
field by copying it to the
From:
field for all incoming mail. Otherwise this information is lost, as Notes has no concept of
Reply-to:
fields. The use of this option will result in the loss of the original
From:
field, if this field is different from the
Reply-to:
field.
Set the Use Resent-from header
option. In the earlier versions of Internet Exchange, if an Internet
Resent-From:
header was present on the incoming message, its value was used for the Lotus Notes
From:
field instead of the one in the Internet message
From:
header. This option supports this function, allowing messages forwarded through some UNIX mailers like Pine to be
turned on or off as needed. The use of this option will result in the loss of the original
From:
field, if this field is different from the
Resent-From:
field.
Set the Use host name in addresses
option.
Setting this option configures outgoing mail using the form:
user@host.domain where host is the local Internet host name and domain is the local Internet
domain name of the Internet Exchange Messaging Server. Some sites however prefer to hide the local host name, sending
all mail out with the address form:
user@domain
If this is required, this option should be turned off. In addition, the local domain should be added to the alternate
host name/domain list. This ensures that incoming mail of this form is recognized as local. All MX records for this
domain should be forwarded to the Internet Exchange.
Set the Include certifier name
option.
If no address mapping for outbound Notes addresses is found in the Directory Server, the default mapping will be used.
If the certifier name is not required for the Internet address, this option should be turned off. For example:
certifier name included: John_Doe/Sales/Jade@jade.net certifier name not included: John_Doe@jade.net
Enable the
Include Notes mail names in addresses
option. Enabling this option includes Lotus Notes names in the comment part of outgoing Internet addresses. For
example: names included: John_Doe@jade.net (John Doe)
Enable
Permit users to send by default
option. If send permission is not enabled for a user in the Alias Database and Directory Database, this option
determines whether the user can send messages to the Internet.
Enable Permit users to receive by default
option. If receive permission is not set for a user in the alias database, this option determines whether that user can
receive messages from the Internet.
Enable the
Copy bounces to postmaster
option. Enabling this option directs all bounced messages to the Notes administrator as well as the original sender of
the message. This can be useful in monitoring problems.
After configuring the different options, click the Submit button.