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Problem: Can't send emails.
Reason: Inbox too full.
Solution: Empty Inbox and compact.

Result: This message:

Ok, so it doesn't explicitly say that the compaction is going on the background, but this status bar is where all the other background tasks are reported. The assumption is fair I think.

Unfortunately, trying to then open the inbox, results in this:

• When searching emails, you can't sort the returned results, which are presented in a (seemingly) random order.
• When searching emails, the fastest way to search all emails is to search inside the “All Documents” view, but the results give no indication as to where the email is. So if you are searching “All Documents” because you cant find an email that should have been in a folder, and you find it, you have no idea where it is. Usually, I then select all the emails in the search results, and re-file them to make sure they are where they should be.
• There is no easy way to modify the default stationary used when sending an email. I can create a new stationary, but to use it, would need to make 2 mouse clicks (new memo -> new memo using stationary) and in most cases, I don't even have that option, instead I just see a “new memo” button.
• Ctl-backspace works (delete word to the left of cursor) but CTL-delete doesn't (delete word to the right of cursor). This tiny little thing is a huge frustration for me.

Previously. Some one else has a dedicated page here.

I'm slowing down a bit, not getting as many new gripes these days.

• You cant change an item in your calender from a time based event to an all day event. You must first delete the time based event and recreate the all day event.
• When you have forwarded an email, that email is marked as such. When you open that email again in (say) 3 months time, it has a handy little icon to tell you that you forwarded it. No clue as to when or to whom.

• Cutting and pasting from excel into an email results in an image
  It's as if you had done a little screen capture of the region selected in Excel. Even badly formatted text would be better than an image.
• Can't delete an email if there is any text currently highlighted
  For example:
  • Open an email
  • Select some text to cut and paste into another document
  • Try to delete the email
  • Nothing happens. No error box, no beep, nothing
  • Simply clicking anywhere in the email, which deselects the text, allows you to delete the email. But it doesn't tell you that.
• Can't delete an attachment from the preview window
  You must first open the window, then delete the attachment. The only reason I'm doing this in the first place is that my mail file is restricted to 20 meg.
• Can't delete an email in the full viewer, if it is also opened in the previewLets say your skimming through your inbox, with the preview pane on:
  • You see a big email
  • You double-click on it and bring it up in the full viewer
  • You read the email, and decide to delete it
  • You can't unless you exit from the full viewer and then delete it from within the inbox

  NOTE: Notes has no problem deleting the email while you are viewing it in the preview pane.

• The mouse wheel scrolls up slower than it scrolls down
  So slow in fact, that it's pretty useless, and you end up reaching for the Page Up key.
• In certain text fields, double-clicking on a word does not select the word
  In almost all other applications, when you double click on the word, it selects the whole word. Instead Notes pops up a dialog box and tells you who can edit that field.

  Previously

Further to my previous bitch-fests, here is my current list of Notes Gripes. I'll be adding to them.

• Bugs in the current Form design:

• Multiple “Illegal Function Code” and “Type Mismatch” errors when trying to set repeat information in a meeting
• Inability to edit the repeat information in a meeting once initially set
• My inbox is reporting 2 unread emails.  There are none, and there is no way to resync the database.  The IT solution was to reinstall Notes, which didn't work.

Company email this morning:

I am pleased to announce an exciting new improvement to email. On Saturday April 1, we will be deploying the new Lotus Notes R6.5 mailbox template to the Lotus Domino server in [Redacted]. Once your mailbox has been migrated to the new template you will have access to all the new features in Lotus Notes R6.5, such as:

• Reply without attachments
• Personalize Inbox view (reorder and sort columns)
• View time & date in Inbox view
• Display # of unread messages in Inbox and folders
• Trash folder

I'm sorry, “an exciting new improvement to email”? WTF? “View time & date in Inbox” and a trash folder? You've got to be kidding me.

Oh, and this is on the heals of the announcement that the IT department is only supporting blackberry's now, and so cant provide any software (or licenses) for syncronising notes to the palm or pocket pc. Oh, and they are only supplying blackberrys to senior management.

Retards.

I fucking hate Lotus Notes.

Hate hate hate.

Not only is it very easy to make the “reply to all” mistake, but when you are working in “remote” mode, there is no way of :
a) seeing that you have pending email
b) deleting or editing said pending email

Needless to say there are alot of “reply to all” mistakes, and I just made one of them.