Getting my Lotus Notes PIM information onto my iPhone
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A few people have asked me how I am doing it. Its not pretty, and slightly ironic in its method, but the following is how I get my mail, calendar information and contacts synchronsised between Lotus Notes, my iPhone, and my Mac. First of all, I used most of the recommendations taken from this post (thank you Benjamin).
Mail
IMAP - Domino is a *cough* capable IMAP server. It will not take heavy load, and is not compliant with some of the basic requirements, but it will do what you need it to do in your environment.
Contacts
I sync my contacts using PocketMac Go between for Lotus Notes. Do NOT buy this product. It does not work for anything but contacts, and has issues understanding non American date formats. They also do not seem to respond to any requests for help. It syncs my Lotus Notes contacts (from my 8.5 beta client) to my address book application on my Mac. When I plug my iPhone into my Mac, iTunes syncs the contacts. In addition, it syncs with my Google contacts list.
Calendar
Slightly different from Benjamin's method, I decided to use my google calendar account as the proxy. So, I installed Google Sync for blackberry onto my blackberry curve. Now, any entry placed in my blackberry goes to my google calendar account. In turn, anything placed in my corporate Lotus Notes calendar goes to my blackberry, so thats Lotus Notes, Blackberry and Google calendar all in sync (bi-directional).
Next I install Companion Link onto my Mac. This keeps iCal in sync with the Google calendar (bi-directional). So, all entries that are placed in google calendar from notes/blackberry are put onto my iCal. My iPhone gets sync'd when I plug into iTunes (considering the battery life of the new iPhone, expect to sync a lot for charging purposes).
In short, my calendar is now sync'd across many formats (although I would rather it not be up on google) and the sweet irony of using my blackberry device to pump information to my iPhone is not lost on me.
I'm not saying this is THE way to do this - if you have a better method, please by all means share. But it does seem to work reliably and mostly wirelessly.
A few people have asked me how I am doing it. Its not pretty, and slightly ironic in its method, but the following is how I get my mail, calendar information and contacts synchronsised between Lotus Notes, my iPhone, and my Mac. First of all, I used most of the recommendations taken from this post (thank you Benjamin).
IMAP - Domino is a *cough* capable IMAP server. It will not take heavy load, and is not compliant with some of the basic requirements, but it will do what you need it to do in your environment.
Contacts
I sync my contacts using PocketMac Go between for Lotus Notes. Do NOT buy this product. It does not work for anything but contacts, and has issues understanding non American date formats. They also do not seem to respond to any requests for help. It syncs my Lotus Notes contacts (from my 8.5 beta client) to my address book application on my Mac. When I plug my iPhone into my Mac, iTunes syncs the contacts. In addition, it syncs with my Google contacts list.
Calendar
Slightly different from Benjamin's method, I decided to use my google calendar account as the proxy. So, I installed Google Sync for blackberry onto my blackberry curve. Now, any entry placed in my blackberry goes to my google calendar account. In turn, anything placed in my corporate Lotus Notes calendar goes to my blackberry, so thats Lotus Notes, Blackberry and Google calendar all in sync (bi-directional).
Next I install Companion Link onto my Mac. This keeps iCal in sync with the Google calendar (bi-directional). So, all entries that are placed in google calendar from notes/blackberry are put onto my iCal. My iPhone gets sync'd when I plug into iTunes (considering the battery life of the new iPhone, expect to sync a lot for charging purposes).
In short, my calendar is now sync'd across many formats (although I would rather it not be up on google) and the sweet irony of using my blackberry device to pump information to my iPhone is not lost on me.
I'm not saying this is THE way to do this - if you have a better method, please by all means share. But it does seem to work reliably and mostly wirelessly.
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Comments
CW
Posted by Christopher Walsh At 21:28:16 On 16/07/2008 | - Website - |
www.funambol.com
Posted by BG At 22:13:30 On 16/07/2008 | - Website - |
Posted by Jim Knight At 00:06:30 On 17/07/2008 | - Website - |
I tried funambol (It was free), but there is not a Notes/Domino client, so it is worthless to me.
Posted by John Nabholz At 14:52:56 On 20/07/2008 | - Website - |