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Looking for a Lotus Notes nsf file viewer

Thu, 15 Jun 2006 at 02:37 • Chyetanya Kunte • Filed under Data preservation, Software, Wishful Thinking

I am searching the web for a .nsf file viewer application, which would let me view all my archived e-mail for the last six years, without the need to have Lotus Notes. Is there such a thing at all?

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6 responses to “Looking for a Lotus Notes nsf file viewer”

  1. Thomas Adrian said:

    You cannot view documents in an nsf databases without a valid installation of Notes/Domino.

    /Thomas

  2. David Collantes said:

    A quick search on Google shows that you can, but the result is not as easily readable as just opening your email client. It will show the fields and their values. The best solutions I found were commercial, and, hence, not free.

  3. Chetan said:

    Thomas, David: Thanks for your help. That leaves with just one option: Export messages to some plain-text format like: CSV and, then think of a way to display those messages like a tree [if possible].

  4. Chetan said:

    The other alternative [if at all possible] would be to import all my mail from nsf files into a structured text format, which is essentially an mBox format [?] and then use GML.

  5. Chetan said:

    Apparently, Structured Text option in Lotus Notes is not in mbox format. But I found this:

    KMailCVT [in KDE 3.5] has a wealth of new import filters to help migrating from other clients. New filters allow importing messages from Sylpheed (Claws), The Bat!, Kmail maildir and Lotus Notes.

    Now all I need to do is, save all my nsf files into structured text files, save them to my USB drive, then download and load-up the latest Knoppix [with KDE 3.5+]. Fire-up Kmail and begin the import sequence from Tools > Import > Import Lotus Notes Emails.

    Once through, export back into mbox format and save the mbox file back to my USB drive.

  6. Richard said:

    I’m trying to do this exact thing - getting around the issue of having a valid installation by downloading a trial version of Notes and seeing if I can get the conversion programs to work then. will let you know.