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How to decrypt old archive notes mail
Yesterday, one user call me how to decrypt archive lotus notes mail. User have the old user ID and password.
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I think the above is not good advice.
ASKER
We only use lotus notes.
Hi,
OK. Which part of it do you disagree with exactly?
The Lotus Notes product was abandoned by IBM and the technology sold to HCL Technologies in July of 2019 at a cost of 1.8 Billion dollars. It is no longer supported as "Lotus Notes" and has been out of support since version 8.5.3. It is no longer being developed or supported, hence the only way to retrieve data from it is to install an old copy of Lotus Notes if that is available to decrypt with or use a third-party tool to extract data by converting to a format that current software can read.
What about that doesn't make sense to you that you deem to be bad advice?
The above doesn't make sense to me. Are you suggesting that you are still using Lotus Notes? If so, then what's the problem with decrypting a Lotus Notes archive if you have the user name and password? If that's not your meaning, can you please clarify?
Thanks.
Regards, Andrew
I think the above is not good advice.
OK. Which part of it do you disagree with exactly?
The Lotus Notes product was abandoned by IBM and the technology sold to HCL Technologies in July of 2019 at a cost of 1.8 Billion dollars. It is no longer supported as "Lotus Notes" and has been out of support since version 8.5.3. It is no longer being developed or supported, hence the only way to retrieve data from it is to install an old copy of Lotus Notes if that is available to decrypt with or use a third-party tool to extract data by converting to a format that current software can read.
What about that doesn't make sense to you that you deem to be bad advice?
We only use lotus notes.
The above doesn't make sense to me. Are you suggesting that you are still using Lotus Notes? If so, then what's the problem with decrypting a Lotus Notes archive if you have the user name and password? If that's not your meaning, can you please clarify?
Thanks.
Regards, Andrew
Eh, sorry Andrew, but...
@Etmy my: I didn't understand your question. If your archive is a Notes database, you can open it in your Notes client. If you also have the ID file and the password, you can put the archive on a local disk, switch to the other ID (with ID file and password) and open the mails. If your situation is different, what is it? Can you describe where you experience problems?
It is no longer supported as "Lotus Notes" ...Correct, it's "HCL Notes" now.
... and has been out of support since version 8.5.3.Not correct, for HCL Notes V12 has recently been released.
It is no longer being developed or supported, ...Correct as in R8.5.3 is no longer supported, but not correct as in newer versions were released and are still being supported by HCL, all 99.9% upwards compatible with older versions.
... hence the only way to retrieve data from it is to install an old copy of Lotus Notes...Old copy or new, doesn't matter.
@Etmy my: I didn't understand your question. If your archive is a Notes database, you can open it in your Notes client. If you also have the ID file and the password, you can put the archive on a local disk, switch to the other ID (with ID file and password) and open the mails. If your situation is different, what is it? Can you describe where you experience problems?
ASKER
In other words . if the archive is encrypted . How to open it in the new user notes account?
At the moment ,user can open other user archive files via switch ID. User want to see under her notes account.
At the moment ,user can open other user archive files via switch ID. User want to see under her notes account.
ASKER
Don't need tranfer to PST format.
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@Sjef,
I'll bow out and leave this in your capable hands.
I've converted Notes archives to PST a few times in the past and the entire process took no more than a few minutes so it seems to me that converting to pst format would be considerably less troublesome, faster, and require a lot less work than the procedure you've described, but if the OP prefers to gain access to the contents using your method, then who am I to argue otherwise.
I'll leave you to it :)
Best, Andrew
I'll bow out and leave this in your capable hands.
I've converted Notes archives to PST a few times in the past and the entire process took no more than a few minutes so it seems to me that converting to pst format would be considerably less troublesome, faster, and require a lot less work than the procedure you've described, but if the OP prefers to gain access to the contents using your method, then who am I to argue otherwise.
I'll leave you to it :)
Best, Andrew
ASKER
No need ! Please close
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@Andrew: I can respectfully say that there is no need for bows whatsoever. You came with a perfectly plausible solution, so I waited until it became clear that Outlook was off the table, and that it was a Notes archive database to be decrypted and used in Notes itself. I can only hope that you will invest some time in studying the quality of the current version(s) of HCL Notes.
May I disagree on the "less troublesome"? In Notes it's just a database copy, all the ingredients are there, whereas if you have to convert to a PST, you need to: buy conversion software, test it, install it, use it, (in my case) install Outlook, and extract/read the mails. Shouldn't be overly complicated, I agree, but still.
PS I know really nothing about how to use Outlook, and I'm perfectly okay with it :-)
See you next time!
@Andrew: I can respectfully say that there is no need for bows whatsoever. You came with a perfectly plausible solution, so I waited until it became clear that Outlook was off the table, and that it was a Notes archive database to be decrypted and used in Notes itself. I can only hope that you will invest some time in studying the quality of the current version(s) of HCL Notes.
May I disagree on the "less troublesome"? In Notes it's just a database copy, all the ingredients are there, whereas if you have to convert to a PST, you need to: buy conversion software, test it, install it, use it, (in my case) install Outlook, and extract/read the mails. Shouldn't be overly complicated, I agree, but still.
PS I know really nothing about how to use Outlook, and I'm perfectly okay with it :-)
See you next time!
https://www.nucleustechnologies.com/blog/free-method-convert-nsf-to-pst-file/
Other than that, a third party tool will need to be used. Eg:
https://mailboxreader.wordpress.com/2020/09/11/remove-encryption-from-lotus-notes-database/
https://www.mailconvertertools.com/nsf-security-remover/
https://www.lotus-notes-export.com/eddieexport.asp
Hope that's helpful.
Regards, Andrew