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Windows XP Professional supported for Client

Beginning in Release 5.0.10, Lotus Notes adds support for the new Windows XP platform. It is important to note that this support is for the XP Professional only.

Systematic replicating by NotesMinder when mail replica is local and Notes Client is not active

In R5.0.10, NotesMinder will use the server mail replica to replicate with the local mail file, using polling interval defined in the NotesMinder Preferences dialog box. This will be done only when:

• Notes client is not currently running, and;
• The active location record is set to use a local mail file.

This feature uses the time-tested Notes Client DLL to replicate, and is incorporated into the failover code of NotesMinder for reliability.

If the current location record uses a local mail file and while the Notes client is not running, NotesMinder will replicate in one direction, from the server to the local file, with the server replica designated in the personal location. The user will not have to manually replicate to see the new mail on their client system.

NotesMinder will do its polling systematically on the server mail replica, thus bypassing whatever is referenced as "MailFile" in the Notes.Ini or personal location document.

With this feature, the user would no longer have to agree to have polling done on the server replica and have to replicate manually to see the mail arrive in its local mail database. This is also true if the user wants to look at the header of the messages (he would always look at header of messages on the server replica).

Client - International

GB18030 support

R5.0.10 supports GB18030-2000 (the new Chinese character set) for the first phase of the Chinese Government conformance requirements, which includes the characters in CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A and 4 scripts (Uygur, Tibetan, Mongolian and Yi). Characters in CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B are not supported in this release. Please contact operating system venders to verify which versions or patches support GB18030. The supporting levels of the new characters could differ by function. Please refer to the Release Note entitled "Settings for GB18030 support" for more details.

All - Install

Install screen contains version number

Customers installing R5.0.10 can now see the release number of the version that they are installing. The version number appears in the Title Bar of the installation screen.