Background
Customer currently uses a legacy/custom Domino application that stores and displays shared/project-based emails which are not associated with individual user mailboxes.
During upgrade planning from Domino 12.x to Domino 14.5.x, customer identified a functional gap caused by the removal/deprecation of iNotes functionality previously leveraged by the application.
Customer Concern
Customer highlighted that HCL Verse is primarily designed for individual user mailboxes and currently does not provide equivalent functionality for shared/project mail applications.
The customer’s application requires capabilities such as:
Displaying shared/project emails
Creating new email messages
Replying to messages
Forwarding messages
Managing emails not tied to a single individual mailbox
Enhancement Request
Customer is requesting an officially supported alternative solution within HCL Verse for handling shared/project-based mail applications after iNotes deprecation.
The requested functionality should support:
Access to shared/project mail repositories
Viewing and managing shared emails
Sending/replying/forwarding emails from shared contexts
Collaboration workflows not tied to a single user mailbox
Business Impact
Customer’s business workflow depends heavily on shared email collaboration functionality. Absence of an equivalent supported solution within Verse may impact Domino 14.5.x upgrade adoption and require redesign of existing legacy applications.
As long as you know the mail file path to the database you want to open, you should be able to provide a URL to that mail file that can be opened in the Verse user interface. The pattern would be:
https://server.com/verse/delegation?mailDbPath=[path to nsf]
where [path to nsf] is the path to the mail file. For example, if the mail file is named user1_mail.nsf and is in the mail folder on the server, the path would be: mail%2Fuser1_mail.nsfNote that the path separator has been replaced with %2F in order to have a valid URL. After navigating to the URL, the user would be prompted to log in and now the user is able to use the `Shared mailbox`.