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1. 1  Phil Leung http://phil-leung.me | 6/13/2011 3:50:33 PM

   Please, clustering! And any word on compatibility with iOS5?

   Great news on the partial-wipe tho btw!

1. 2  Scott Skaife  | 6/13/2011 4:39:26 PM

   Hopefully a month view in Android traveler is on that list as well as the ability to temporarily retrieve emails that have not been pushed to the Android client.

   It is a little embarrassing to tell people that they need to install a second email application if they want to go past the few days that they have by default.

1. 3  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 6/13/2011 4:45:02 PM
   
   

   @1 we'll finalize iOS5 work when iOS5 is finalized :)

1. 4  Andy Donaldson http://Http://blog.macian.net | 6/13/2011 4:57:46 PM

   EXCELLENT!

1. 5  Tripp Black http://www.mindwatering.com | 6/13/2011 5:04:57 PM

   Gee, and usually I'm the fuzzy admin who gives users FT indexes and large mailfiles I can. (I like them to be able to work and I don't like Notes to suck.) We haven't needed the complete hard reset, but I liked the total factory brick option. I'm happy with this option, too, though.

   Also love that traveler is almost w/o maintenance free after install. Love that. Love that the install is so easy, too. Also, love that it almost always just works. (Even when it hasn't, it was all user caused.)

   All great news.

1. 6  Tinus Riyanto http://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/dusty-library/?lang=en | 6/13/2011 5:53:53 PM

   Support for clustering on Traveler would be much appreciated. We also have problem with user changing their Notes / Notes Internet password and have to manually change the traveler password on the device. Some sort of automatic warning (If you recently change your password please typed in your new password here ... bla bla bla) or password sync would be great.

1. 7  Christian  | 6/13/2011 8:00:50 PM

   Has anybody gotten Traveler (8.5.2.2) to work with iOS 5.0 Beta 1? I can’t get ours to work; I get messages saying that the device doesn’t support encryption. Our Exchange friends report that disabling the encryption requirement allows them to get past this, but it doesn’t seem to help with Traveler.

1. 8  Rob Brown  | 6/13/2011 8:13:20 PM

   @3 I know all the usual sayings about unreleased software but within 24-48 hrs of the release of iOS5, a fair percentage of users will have already made the one way only - no way to back out upgrade. If you wait until release day to find which versions of Traveler no longer work -- just saying, I think you need to prep us in advance for what could be a "camel back"/straw event :)

1. 9  Mister Falcon  | 6/13/2011 8:24:41 PM

   @7 We are using Traveler 8.5.2 with iOS 5 beta 1 on several devices (iPhone 4 and iPad 1s) at our site without significant problems.

   The only issue I've seen so far is that we can no longer accept calendar invites. The invite shows up, but you don't get the Accept/Maybe/Decline dialog. I'm not sure if this is an iOS bug, or if they changed something in the ActiveSync handling that breaks Traveler. As Ed said in @3, IBM will fix it when Apple is done with the code.

1. 10  Harald Gaerttner http://www.fifthstreet.biz | 6/14/2011 2:48:04 AM

   Some very good new features in there for Traveler!

   Will 8.5.3 Traveler require an 8.5.3 Domino server or will it run (with full functionality) on an 8.5.2 Server too?

   Thanks

   Harald

1. 11  Tobias  | 6/14/2011 4:36:46 AM

   @10 in the System requirements they wrote for traveler 8.5.3 you need an 8.5.3 Domino Server

1. 12  Martin Davies  | 6/14/2011 5:58:07 AM

   Excellent - the Symbian encryption and Android enhancements will be well received by our customers

1. 13  Nikolay http://www.awesync.com | 6/14/2011 7:14:27 AM

   Strange comment: Domino encrypted mail support for Android.

   As I see, this feature is already working in 8.5.2.2

1. 14  Keith Nolen http://www.knproductions.com | 6/14/2011 9:08:55 AM

   This s great news!

   One thing I would like to see... how about an IBM to-do app for Android and iOS that syncs via Traveler? That would be awesome!

   Keith

1. 15  Joy  | 6/14/2011 9:16:28 AM

   I appled LNT8523 today. I tested a partial wipe on my ipod and that worked like a charm. Then tried to select an iPhone or iPad and I don't see the option available.

1. 16  Vittorio Foschi http://vfoschi.wordpress.com | 6/14/2011 9:43:17 AM

   In ios5 apple introduced an app for the todo's ( Reminders ) ... she will synchronize with traveler in future ?

1. 17  Gary Au http://www.garyau.com | 6/14/2011 12:17:43 PM

   I think if lotus traveler can provide a solution to access the notebook.nsf / journel.nsf , for memo access, it will be more perfect.

1. 18  Scott Skaife  | 6/14/2011 3:16:57 PM

   The biggest killer feature I would like to see is having traveler receive notifications from custom xPage apps. and use it's password to auto login to those apps.

1. 19  Scott Beattie  | 6/14/2011 9:47:08 PM

   @16 and @17 beat me to it :)

   100% agree - two killer features.

   Throw in Sametime 852 client for iOS (iphone/ipad) and we have a real mobility solution.

1. 20  Simon Peek http://www.teamstudio.com | 6/15/2011 3:54:37 AM

   Loving Traveler. The group lookup feature sounds great.

   The new features will be reviewed in our Traveler workshop in London tomorrow.

   { Link }

   (sorry for the 'plug', but it is rather topical!

1. 21  Dan Bridgland  | 6/15/2011 8:58:52 AM

   Hi Ed, Now that Apple have confirmed iOS 5 will support s/mime, could you give an indication of the prospective support for s/mime in the Traveler road map, I'd hate to think that the future is only filled with support for the Companion app. likewise @16 support for 'To do'/Reminders and 'Notes' (by that I mean the iOS 'Notes' as opposed to the IBM 'Louts Notes' - this could get very confusing!)

1. 22  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 6/15/2011 12:19:10 PM
   
   

   @21 S/MIME isn't the typical encryption approach in Notes/Domino so I'm not sure why we would try some kind of conversion to support iOS. Why does the Companion app conjure hatred?

   I hear the requests for task/todo/note support... nothing to announce, yet.

1. 23  Michael Dwyer  | 6/15/2011 9:06:39 PM

   Ed

   When might the 8.5.3 server and client be available for production use? We have a migration(including an upgrade to 8.5.2 occuring soon, and it would be nice to have 8.5.3 instead.

   Thanks

   michael Dwyer

1. 24  Harris Huckabee  | 6/16/2011 10:48:58 AM

   @18, I agree mobile workflow apps (Xpage apps) would be so powerful if notifications and autologin were possible through Traveller. Opportunies & security issues. Making the jump from pw securing data on the device to same pw securing data on the web/cloud? An autologin behind a standard login? Anyway, SSO for a mobile device to be able to follow weblinks in notifications without logging in WOULD be nice.

1. 25  Brian LeBlanc  | 6/16/2011 2:42:12 PM

   Now if IBM can just get production support for traveler in the US they really can use what they sell.

1. 26  Scott Skaife  | 6/16/2011 6:20:42 PM

   @24, It might be nice to have a flag on the database that prevents 'AutoLogin'. The thing is though, Traveler already pulls data off of the web/cloud. That is what email is after all.

1. 27  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 6/17/2011 8:15:43 AM
   
   

   @23 planned for release in September (this year)

1. 28  Magnus Toth http://Http://apps.cikado.com | 6/18/2011 5:55:16 AM

   Hi all,

   I'm the product manager for NotesF1 To Do which will sync all Notes To Do's to your iPhone (Android will be supported within a week or so). NotesF1 is fully integrated with traveler server so you can now finally get offline support etc. Since this info is kind of a breaking news regarding To Do sync I'm posting this here. Ed, feel free to remove this post if you don't think this is the right place for this info.

   Best regards

   Magnus Toth

1. 29  Hans Bornich  | 6/19/2011 4:15:57 PM

   IOS5 will support flagging a message for follow-up. It would be really nice if Traveler would support this so you have important messages flagged in your Notes mailfile also.

   Today, if you have a busy mailbox you have no easy way of remembering to follow up on an email that you read earlier on your phone.

1. 30  Dan Bridgland  | 6/20/2011 4:07:41 AM

   Hi Ed,

   Re @21, 22

   I'm not certain of your exposure to the Traveler Companion App. but whilst the App can claim to be a successful work around for accessing encrypted mail on an otherwise closed OS, It can not claim to be an elegant App, nor can it claim to be a success in the eyes of the everyday user. Indeed I often find myself frustrated and battling with the limited abilities of the App, such as not being able to read the original text of the email I'm replying to, In my role I also support a number of iPhone users who's feedback on having to access encrypted mail via a third party App is none to complementary, further frustrated by repeatedly asking for the users password. I refer you to the AppStore user feedback and the App's two and a half star rating.

   I for one would be saddened to learn that the Lotus Traveler team would refuse to support native iOS mail encryption. All I ask is that you please consider the end user.

1. 31  Sam Sawatzky  | 6/20/2011 8:15:50 AM

   Hi Ed

   In a webcast a while ago, you mentioned that you were considering adopting the OpenNTF Teamroom as a template upgrade to the current Teamroom. I'm wondering - did this make the cut? and are there other templates that you are upgrading with this release? (specifically - Resource Reservations could use a nice Xpages front-end)

   Thanks

1. 32  Sam Sawatzky  | 6/20/2011 8:15:52 AM

   Hi Ed

   In a webcast a while ago, you mentioned that you were considering adopting the OpenNTF Teamroom as a template upgrade to the current Teamroom. I'm wondering - did this make the cut? and are there other templates that you are upgrading with this release? (specifically - Resource Reservations could use a nice Xpages front-end)

   Thanks

1. 33  Rob Ingram http://www.thesametimeblog.com | 6/20/2011 4:26:15 PM

   @19- Sametime for iOS is coming later this year. This is not just the browser access that's already available but an iOS app. More details on Sametime mobile were discussed in the recent Greenhouse webcast and in this blog post

   https://www-304.ibm.com/connections/blogs/SametimeBlog/entry/sametime_8_5_2_ushers_in_a_new_era_of_mobile_ucc2?lang=en_us

1. 34  Steve Medure  | 6/21/2011 10:20:43 AM

   Ed, just thought you should know that there is an issue with fix pack 3(8.5.2.3). Installing this fix pack broke voice mail messages that are delivered as a .wav attachment. We use Cisco Unity and the attachment is stripped out for Apple devices and the entire email is ignored on Android devices.

   I opened a PMR yesterday and the L3 dev team is actively looking at the issue. So just an FYI to anyone looking at 8.5.2.3, if you use any sort of unified messaging system that delivers the voicemails as a .wav file you might have problems getting your voice mails on your mobile devices after the install.

   Ed, if you have some time and would like to discuss this further off line, I have some concerns that I'd like to voice to you directly.

   Thanks,

   Steve

1. 35  Bill Buhl  | 6/21/2011 11:48:43 AM

   @13 - the Encrypted mail on the Android was supposed to work in 8.5.2.2, but did not. At least not for everyone. The upgrade fixed that.

   But get this... I get the option to do a partial wipes for Android devices, NOT Apple devices, after the upgrade to 8.5.2.3 ... very strange.

1. 36  Nuno Ribeiro  | 6/21/2011 5:00:30 PM

   Hi Ed,

   I am using LNT 8.5.2.3 for android and I don't understand why Iphone users don't not need a client software and android OS have to use it. At the end android users will have three email client software installed (gmail, custom's phone software and Lotus Traveler). It is too much and the battery drain continues even with this fix pack. Why we could not use Exchange Active sync too?

   Thanks in advance.

1. 37  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 6/22/2011 1:52:26 AM
   
   

   @36 i have discussed this previously. We did not feel like we could build sufficient enterprise capabilities using EAS on the device. Mail and calendar yes, but in a way that would not be consistent (the base OS mail/calendar is not enterprise-grade in all cases). We also wanted to build a single client that could then be extended to instant messaging and activity streams as native applications. In the long run, this has been the right decision.

1. 38  Nuno Ribeiro  | 6/22/2011 8:04:55 AM

   @37 Thank you Ed for your comments. I don't agree 100% with you but I respect your opinion . I believe now that in a near future Apple's solution will have to change also, otherwise it will be in disadvantage among other platforms.

1. 39  Jan Kenney  | 6/22/2011 1:09:10 PM

   @35 Bill, with 8.5.2.3 you can do full or partial (traveler only) wipes for all platforms. You could always do both full and partial on Android, Nokia Symbian and Windows Mobile. Now you can do both on iOS. Not sure why you're not seeing the iOS partial option. Two question: Are you seeing iOS full option? Is your Traveler server at 8.5.2.x? Jan

1. 40  Tim Orlowski  | 6/22/2011 1:31:47 PM

   Version 2.0.3 of Lotus Notes Traveler is now available on the Apple AppStore.

   It addresses one of #30's issues concerning passwords.

   What's New in Version 2.0.3

   - Adds the ability to suppress repeated prompts for the Notes ID password when reading or sending multiple encrypted messages in succession. This feature can be controlled by administrator policy and requires Lotus Notes Traveler server 8.5.2 or greater. (8.5.2.3 or greater is recommended.)

   - Easily reconfigure Companion settings when Traveler server is moved or when accessing a new account.

   - Bug fixes.

1. 41  Tim Orlowski  | 6/22/2011 1:44:35 PM

   @39 With 8.5.2.3 the i/OS Partial Wipe will not show without an additional step. This wiki article explains what a Traveler Administrator needs to do to completely enable it.

   { Link }

1. 42  Bill Buhl  | 6/23/2011 9:31:03 AM

   @39 Thanks Jan - With the Androids coming later in our environment and never having the need to wipe them after our initial iPhone testing I didn't realize that this was already included!

   @41 The command helped finish the process, but there are still stragglers, which is odd. I suspect the couple I've seen without the command are test devices since they are under the name of support peope so the devices may not have contacted the server in a while and may be that plays a role.

1. 43  Steve Medure  | 6/23/2011 2:13:09 PM

   RE:34 - Just incase anyone else was seeing this issue.

   IBM support just gave me an interim fix. It involved replacing the following files on the traveler server.

   traveler.jar

   ntraveler.exe

   ntraveler.sym

   travelerca.dll

   travelerca.sym

   Once the files were replaced I started the server and voice mail messages that are delivered to the inbox as .wav file now show up correctly on both apple and android devices.

   The traveler build after this fix is 8.5.2.3 20110622_1422

1. 44  Jan Kenney  | 6/23/2011 5:57:03 PM

   @41 Bill, about the command to finish the partial wipe enablement for the iOS stragglers.... The iOS devices need to come back in through the security checking flow. When that is done, the options for the device get updated to include the partial option. The tell command "fix" just sets it up so that when the device connects, it will be sent down that path. The device MUST connect once and be sent down that security path before it will be an option. The belief is that the straggler devices may not have connected after you issued the *fix* command. See if with a bit of time (and confirmed connection) the issue with the stragglers is rectified.

1. 45  Adam Rogers  | 6/27/2011 7:50:13 AM

   I have installed iOS5 beta 1 and now beta 2 on both an iPad2 and my iPhone4.

   With beta 1, I did not have any issues with Traveler.

   With beta 2, I am getting an error message that the device "Cannot Verify Server Identity" at which point I can Cancel, Details or Continue.

   It happens over and over again.. assuming every time it has to communicate with Traveler. I'm not sure if this is an iOS issue, a Traveler issue, or just an issue with how our company has set up Traveler.

   Is anyone else running iOS 5 beta 2 and having this issue?

1. 46  Dan Nelson  | 7/15/2011 11:04:24 AM

   It's probably too late for this comment to be noticed, but regarding Traveler clustering, wouldn't it be a lot easier to cluster if:

   1) the configuration XML files were a config document in an NSF file (either names.nsf or a Traveler-specific one), and

   2) the Derby database were replaced with an NSF file holding state for each connected user. Looking at the schema, almost all of the tables are either one row per device or one row per user and could easily be stored in an NSF as one doc per row. Three tables ( GUIDMAP, TS_GUD_TIME, and TS_RECORD_MAPPING ) are large ( 100k - 200k rows each for my 120-device setup ), but I imagine they could be put into NSF format too, either one doc per row, or multiple rows packed into a single doc like mtstore.nsf . I'm not really sure why Traveler needs those tables, which look like they're maybe one row per document. Maybe move whatever info is being stored in there into a field in the mail documents themselves?

   Anyhow, if IBM can get all the config and state stored in NSF files, you would then magically get clustering via replication.

1. 47  Simon Pheonix  | 7/15/2011 1:51:04 PM

   I also get multiple "Cannot Verify Server Identity" prompts every time I check my email on my Lotus Notes Traveler Server. iOS 5 beta 2 and iOS 5 beta 3. Can't remember if it did it on beta 1, I think it did.

1. 48  Rob Kirkland http://rockteam.com | 9/7/2011 2:54:44 PM

   I have Android users who are asking me when they'll be able to process meeting invitations in Traveler for Android. I'd love to be able to tell them how long they'll have to wait. Any help here?

1. 49  Bharti Patel  | 10/6/2011 9:29:34 PM

   @29 Hans,

   Agree with your comments on Follow up tags, it is planned in upcoming releases of Traveler later this year.

   Bharti

1. 50  Bharti Patel  | 10/6/2011 9:42:40 PM

1. 51  Bharti Patel  | 10/6/2011 9:44:49 PM

   @48 Rob,

   Traveler 8.5.3 has full calendar support.

1. 52  Dan Long  | 11/2/2011 2:51:48 PM

   Hi,

   Is there any work being done to allow delete messages and invitesfrom handheld only, this becomes an issue in my environment when we have others managing calander for executives. Not sure if this is an option on the android, but its not available on the iphone that i'm aware of.

   Thanks,

   Dan

1. 53  Ahmed Moledina  | 11/26/2011 10:31:29 PM

   Is there a way to have multiple Lotus Notes Traveler accounts on one device? I have an Apple iPhone using the LotusLive service with Traveler and I have two separate accounts but having trouble when the second one gets enabled. I am not able to send outgoing emails to anyone or from any account. The minute I disable the second traveler account it starts working fine. Any ideas?

1. 54  Terry Trewitt  | 2/8/2012 1:32:26 PM

   Sadly, Traveler inexplicably does not yet support S/MIME, and there apparently is no date planned for its inclusion.

   We are in the process of rolling out 400+ iPads to our executive and sales teams, the real moneymakers for our company.

   Having become very accustomed to successful use of encrypted email with our external partners and parent company via S/MIME, it came as quite a shock to discover that the code on the Traveler side of the Traveler / Domino interface is incapable of supporting S/MIME.

   All of the x.509 certificates for our parent company are accessed via LDAP proxy, and are retrieved and incorporated on-the-fly within Domino, via directory assistance, when encrypted email is sent via Notes client, iNotes or Blackberry.

   Attempting to send S/MIME through Traveler results in Domino posting a request to our LDAP proxy, with the one and only parameter we need missing from its list: userCertificate;binary.

   Use of any other client type reliably causes this parameter to be included in the LDAP call, resulting in return of the x.509 certificate.

   The bottom line is that Traveler ignores requests to encrypt email to non-Notes recipients, and does not pass this request on to Domino, as do the other clients.

   The very courteous Traveler support rep apologized, and listed "CQUN-85BN94 Support S/MIME" as the "enhancement request" for inclusion in an indeterminate future release.

   Given the target audience for this iPad roll-out, the pressure for ASAP migration to Exchange is about to dramatically increase.

1. 55  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 2/8/2012 3:15:30 PM
   
   

   Thanks for the feedback Terrry - I will share it with our development team.