Lotus Notes Synchronization

No, that is not possible.

The only way you would be able to sync your Lotus notes is if you can sync them with iCal or with Exchange. I don't believe that is possible. Note that even Exchange is not a direct sync source -- on a Mac it ONLY syncs with iCal -- iCal and Exchange then use your mac's Sync server to communicate with each other.

I have been using Lotus Notes for years on PC and MAC client. I have been working to get my iphone sync with Lotus Notes. The only real way to do it short term. Is to run the Lotus Domino for Outlook option against your Domino mail file. You can connect to your Lotus Notes via Outlook. Then you should be able to sync OutLook to iphone.

I was not able to do this myself, since I sync my iPhone first to my MAC, which matted it to my MAC OS. You can't sync between itunes on MAC and PC on same iphone. So when I setup the PC and Outlook for Domino is was useless to sync with my iPhone due to MAC OS sync limitation.

My mail syncs fine with IMAP on Domino and iphone, minus my calendar and directory from Notes. But currently I have to export my Domino Calendar and Directory to iCal and Address book on MAC. Then sync them to my iphone.

Not a perfect solution, but I very much doubt that someone is going to build a direct sync from Lotus Notes on Mac directly to my iPhone anytime soon.

best of luck...


iphone

I read on another forum that Apple may provide support for Lotus Notes sometime on the fall.

Also I found a website that claims they have support for Lotus notes syn with the iPhone, however I downloaded the beta and it does not have an option Lotust note/iPhone

Here is the website

http://www.companionlink.com/products/iphone.html

I downloaded the beta and started to play with it. The first thing I discovered is that you must have Microsoft Outlook installed, because Itunes will only let you sync from Outlook or Yahoo Address Book. I did have a copy of Outlook, so I installed it and I made the mistake of trying to link it to yahoo mail. Some how it made a mess.

So I tried another machine, since I could not get out of the problem of "files not found", even after I un-installed and re-install.

Once I installed outlook and Companionlink on the other machine. I had to open Itunes and make sure to select to sync with outlook, and then I ran the Companionlink sync program. Every thing synchronized well, I have all my calendar and contacts in both Outlook and the iPhone.

Two problems.

1) the sync is manual.
2) The sync took 1 hour to copy the entries. It actually selected every entry on my calendar going back to 2001 and copied them into the iPhone and outlook. which was not that bad if it only had to do it the first time, however every time I sync it reads all 3650 calendar entries again. Even if you only made 1 change. So it took another 30 minutes to sync 1 new calendar entry.

However it is the only thing available now. I sure hope Apple decides to support Lotus Notes. all my friends at work will be getting iPhones if they could replicate their calendar from Lotus Notes.

I have a 14 day trial period I will continue to play with it. However the Apple thru iTunes is the right solution.