my examined life

I reinstalled Lotus Notes 8.0.2 today to fix some issues with the Preferences pages not displaying and remembered one more caveat about running Lotus Notes under Linux. For the longest time, I was having issues about email attachments not opening, so I would have to save every attachment and open it with its respective application. Finally, out of frustration, I searched IBM's website and came across an known issue in which the openwith application, found at: /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/openwith, doesn't correctly detect magic numbers. The work around is to rename the openwith application to something like openwith.original and create a soft link to gnome-open or the similar KDE application.

• mv /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/openwith /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/openwith.origina
• ln -s /usr/bin/gnome-open /opt/ibm/louts/notes/openwith

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