Reading Lotus Notes Mail using Web browser

A web browser such as netscape has a unique advantage over pine and emacs when it comes to accessing your Lotus Notes mail account. The Lotus Notes server includes a web interface that allows you to read and manage your mail while leaving it on the Lotus Notes server. This feature lets you to avoid the problem that arises when you file your read mail on the host where you are running the web browser, making it inaccessible when you travel to another site.

To access the Lotus Notes system, a student whose Lotus Notes username is joeuser would point his web browser to the URL:

http://mail-j.fordham.edu/j/joeuser.nsf

In your case, change the j of mail-j and the j between slashes to the first letter of your user name, and the joeuser to your user name. You will be prompted for your username and password, after which you will be able to read and send mail.

If you plan to keep all your mail on the Lotus Notes server, you should set up your Unix account so that it forwards all the mail it receives to the Lotus Notes server. Then all your mail will be in one place.

To forward your Unix mail to your account on fordham.edu, create a file, named .forward (notice the initial dot), in your home directory. This file should contain a single line, saying

joeuser@smtp.fordham.edu

(Replace joeuser by your actual Lotus Notes user name.)

For more information, see the Fordham SDS Off-Campus Network Access Guide.