Lotus Notes Traveler on Android

April 18, 2011 Chilling_Silence How-To's / Guides / Tech info

Finally after over a year in development, the Lotus Notes Traveler client for Android has been released!

To be honest, it’s surprisingly clean, fast, and works relatively well (With the exception that you can’t copy text from emails, but I presume this is deliberate).

Here is a quick  installation guide:

Before we begin, you need to make sure that you have enabled the installation of applications from “Non-Market sources”. What this means is that you can install apps from places such as your companies Lotus Notes server. Do this by pressing Menu at your home screen, then selecting Settings –> Programs –> Development Settings. Make sure that either “Unknown Sources” or “Non-Market Sources” is enabled:

If you’ve got that, then excellent, you’re ready to get started.

Now to begin installing, open up your browser and go to your Lotus Notes Traveler server with the URL: https://domain.co.nz/servlet/traveler

You likely need to specify “https” at the beginning, and also have the “/servlet/traveler” after your domain name, so don’t forget it.

When you get there, it will prompt you for your username (Usually your email address) and password. Keep in mind that these are quite likely different from the Username & Password that you use to log in to Lotus Notes on your Desktop PC.

Enter the User ID & password provided by your Lotus Notes administrator and you’ll be taken to a web page where you can scroll down and select “Configure your Android”. This will download the installer:

 

 

 

This “Installer” will in turn download the actual Traveler email client. Kind of doubling up if you ask me, but it’s the way that IBM decided to do things, so we’ll just roll with it.

Fire up the Lotus Installer and use the same User ID and password that your Lotus Notes administrator has provided you, but when entering the Server name, you now don’t need the “/servlet/traveler” on the end any more.

 

 

 

Once Traveler is installed, it’ll fire it up and ask you yet again for your User ID and password (Notice that this one says “Lotus Traveler Configuration” instead of “Lotus Installer”).

Thankfully this is the last time you will ever have to enter it:

It  will then ask where you want to keep the emails stored on your phone. Because my Nexus One only has 512MB of internal storage, I was glad it gave me the choice of using my MicroSD card:

That’s it, you’re all done. Easy right?

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