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Suspend all internal Emails Donimo R5

He is the senerio,

My boss has asked me if it is possible to suspend all internal emails within lotus notes for 24 hrs

The Idea is to have an email free day,

Dont get this confused with allowing all external emails to still pass through incoming and outgoing

So with this in mind is it possible to achieve this task without too much diruption to the R5 server.

Thanks

Psyclones.

HemanthaKumar

No.. Not possible. There are no two tasks which control internal and external routing.. both are handled by one single router.

If you shutdown the router.. no mails are transferred or received.. there is a way you can block external mails by shutting down smtp task... but not internal

~Hemanth

Psyclones

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Just been doing a bit of browsing and thought as much,

Would be nice if it could be done, Well back to the drawing board.

Will leave this open for a day see if anyone has any inspirations or workarounds.

Thanks for the very quick response.

Psyclones

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p_partha

Just a thought, write a small script which will change the owners ACL to reader. After a day you can set it back

Partha

Psyclones

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My knowledge of lotus notes is not that high unfortunately

Would the writing of a script acheive what is required,

ie The will not be able to send internal emails and will be allowed to recieve and send external emails ?

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Psyclones

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Psyclones

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Thanks go to everyone for there advise,

I posted points for this so I`ll just share with everyone who took part.

Will have to have words with the boss`s me thinks.

Thanks

Psyclones

Sjef Bosman

Quite interesting to know your selected method and the outcome. Will you keep us posted?

Psyclones

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I thought it was only fair to select all that helped in the final decision, as previously stated my scripting skills for lotus notes is not that good and the amount of work required for this to work i expect to be quite high,

Everyone helped in coming to the final decision which is to be passed on to our boss`s.

I will however still keep this on the back burner and if I can find / create a solution which doesnt involve too much reconfiguration I will surely let you all know.

As you probably know time is something you dont get a lot of when you are the only IT support onsite.

Ultimately the project I think is a "nice to have thing". Personnally I think its a lot of work to implement for 8 hrs of "making people take rather then email".

I didnt feel the need to justify my spliting the points just thought I would give a better explination of why I came to that decision.

Thanks again
Psyclones

Psyclones

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the above isnt a response to your comment sjef_bosman

was typing in between jobs and didnt realise you commented so fast,

Of course I will let you all know what the final out come of this will be.

It a job for the test server at home me thinks.

Thanks

Psyclones