Howto enable webmail (iNotes) in IBM Lotus Domain 8.5 with some Tips ‘n’ Tricks

Following is an short guide on howto enable web mail on IBM Lotus Domino server. I wrote this so that I don’t have to google the whole world again just to enable web login. Wouldn’t it be nice if IBM put ‘Enable Web Login’ box in the configuration tab  , After all we all love being Lazy 😉

By default when you first open your domino server web address in your browser, you may see following screen.

To enable web mail login page, Follow the below steps

Create DOMCFG

Open Domino Administrator,
Goto Files
Create new application by going to File menu > Application > New
In Server , select your domino server,
In Title, name it domcfg
In ‘Specify Template for new application‘ Server> , select your domino server
Click on ‘Show Advance Templates‘
In ‘Template‘ click on ‘Domino web server configuration (8)‘

As showed in the image below . . .

Click n OK. and ‘domcfg – Sign In Form Mappings‘ will appear.
Click on ADD Mapping
In Target Database, Type iwaredir.nsf
In Target Form, Type dwaLoginForm

Click on Save & Close

Create IWAREDIR

Now Create another new application by going to File menu > Application > New
In Server , select your domino server,
In Title, name it iwaredir
In ‘Specify Template for new application‘ Server, select your domino server
Click on ‘Show Advance Templates‘
In ‘Template‘ click on ‘IBM Lotus iNotes Redirect‘

As showed in the image below . . .

Click on OK and ‘IBM Lotus iNotes Rediect Setup‘ will appear.

As showed in the image below .. .

Here you can define few things like users options, seconds to delay before redirecting to inbox, light mode selection, color , logo and few other things. Click on Save & Exit.

Redirect Default web to iwaredir.nsf

Now goto Domino Administrator configuration tab select the
Server Document  >  Current Server Document > Internet Protocol >  HTTP tab
Select Mapping , and in HOME URL type following
/iwaredir.nsf?Open

Now goto

Domino Web Engine tab in session authentication Select Single Server

Click Save & Close.

Now from console restart HTTP Server by issuing following command

tell http restart

Now from client end, try opening your web mail by entering domino ip or name in browser. You will see login screen.
As showed in the image below .. .

hmmm it looks fine, but you can change this login screen to something more sophisticated look. You can further customize it to show nice Login form.

Changing Login FORM

To do this goto FILES , double click on domcfg , Click on Edit Mapping
As showed in the image below .. .

in Target Database , type
iwaredir.nsf

in Target Frame , type
dwaLoginForm

Click on Save & Close.

Restart HTTP server and try again to access the lotus web server. & you will some nice login from.
As showed in the image below .. .

Tip’s n Tricks

Howto change iNotes Logo in redirection screen

When you configure iNotes, and after entering id password, you will see the redirecting screen. You can enter your company logo here or some other fun things, like public service announcements and other things. You cal also configure how long this redirect page should stay in UI setup of iwaredir.nsf

# To add logo , open Domino Admin , Goto Files, Double click on iwaredir.nsf ,
# in UI Setup, change the text you like to display , like welcome msg.
# in Custom Logo for Browser, copy paste the logo file (Make sure its small in size and width/height, mine was 100 x 50), to copy paste, simply right click on your logo file, and paste it in this field.
# You can also configure how long this page should stay on user screen before moving to inbox.
As shoed in the image below . . .

An example of my redirection page which stays for about 4 seconds on the screen . . .

Howto redirect to specific site after user logs out

If you want that when user logsout from iNotes, he should be redirected to your portal/web site.
Open notes.ini and add following line in the end

iNotes_WA_LogoutRedirect=https://aacable.wordpress.com

Now restart domino server , goto console, and issue following command

restart server

Regard’s
Syed Jahanzaib