A little Domino container story
A short story of my experience of updating a Domino 10 on CentOS 7 server to a Domino 14.0 FP3 IF2 server on AlmaLinux 9 using containers.
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Changing the file size limit for a community
By default, a HCL Connections community can contain 500 MB of files in the Files widget. Depending on what kind of content is posted in the community, that might not be enough. It’s possible to change the file limit, both for communities and for personal files. This article shows how to do it.
Continue readingModern email protocols: DANE, MTA-STS and TLS-RPT
In my recent OpenNTF webinar on modern E-mail Server operations, I covered several SMTP-related protocols like DKIM, SPF, and DMARC. However, with ongoing efforts to enhance the security of SMTP, new protocols have emerged, and these are the focus of this article.
Continue readingBuilding custom add-ons for your Domino container image
I realised today that there’s a piece of the Domino container project that I presented on multiple times this year, but which neither I nor Daniel ever properly documented. So here’s the documentation on Domino container image custom add-ons.
Continue readingDomino and Modern E-mail Server Operations
Last July, I presented a session for OpenNTF titled “How to use Domino as a Mail Server in a Modern World”. It was an in-depth session on the history of the SMTP protocol, new email security protocols and how to configure them to have the best chance that a mail from your domain will reach the intended recipient. In this article, I’ll cover some of the interesting things that I encountered during my research for this session and some more information on things that I covered and things that I didn’t cover.
Continue readingInstalling Domino REST API in an existing Domino container server
Domino REST API is one of the add-ons that you can select when creating a Domino container image. That creates a Domino image that includes everything you need to run the Domino REST API on your server, except when that server already existed before you added the REST API…
Continue readingEnd of Life for CentOS 7 AND CentOS 8 Stream
That CentOS 7 would go end-of-life at the end of last month, shouldn’t have come as a surprise to anyone any more, although many CentOS 7 servers are still around. That CentOS Stream 8 went end-of-life in May 2024 did come as a surprise to me.
Continue readingInstalling Huddo Boards on WebSphere-only Connections
One of the nicer extensions which you get when you install the HCL Connections component pack is Activities Plus, or, if you pay an extra license fee to ISW/Huddo, Huddo Boards. If you don’t want to install the component pack, you can still use Huddo Boards. This article explains how.
Continue readingUpgrading your PostgreSQL database
Some posts are more for my own documentation. This is one of them. It might benefit someone else, though. It describes how to migrate your PostgreSQL database to a later version.
Continue readingMy thoughts on Engage 2024
Last week was the HCL user group event Engage in Antwerp, Belgium. This is a summary of my thoughts on the event.
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