Enabling RSS feeds for iNotes®

You can enable RSS feeds for HCL iNotes® mail through mail policy settings or by using notes.ini file variables.

About this task

When feeds are enabled, a feeds icon displays in the Inbox. Then, feed readers that are built into browsers or that have browser extensions, automatically detect that a feed link is present from a user's iNotes® Inbox. If enabled, users can subscribe to the feed so that the feed reader application detects new mail. Since iNotes® mail files are generally not accessible by anonymous users, the feed reader application must support storing authentication information to the mail server to retrieve the latest feed.
Note: Be aware that HTTP traffic to your HCL Domino® mail server can increase if many users subscribe to these feeds within external feed readers.
Note: External feed readers are not able to properly authenticate to the Domino® server if forms-based authentication is used. By default, basic authentication is enabled for feed requests.

Procedure

  1. To enable feeds, edit or create a mail policy settings document.
  2. On the HCL iNotes > Configuration tab under Feeds Feature Settings, set the following fields:
    • Set feeds - Use this setting to enable feeds. This setting overrides the notes.ini file setting iNotes_WA_Feeds.
    • Set feeds secured - Select Yes for this setting to enable non-HTTP non-secure feeds. By default, only secure feeds to the mail file are enabled to prevent insecure authentication from occurring as part of a feed retrieval.
      Tip: (Optional) Change the notes.ini file setting iNotes_WA_FeedsSecured=0 to allow feeds to be accessed via http rather than https. The default value is 1.
    • Feeds protocol name - Use this setting to have further control of the feed protocol advertised by the Inbox page. It is applicable only when Set feeds secured is enabled. If not specified, the advertised feed uses the same protocol as the current page on which the feed advertisement occurs. The Feeds protocol name setting overrides the notes.ini file setting iNotes_WA_FeedsProtocol.

Disabling basic authentication for feeds

About this task

By default, iNotes® forces basic authentication for feeds. You can disable that authentication.

Procedure

Use these notes.ini file settings:
  • iNotes_WA_DisableForceBasicAuthForFeeds=1 Disables basic authentication for both Atom and RSS requests
  • iNotes_WA_DisableForceBasicAuthForRSS=1 Disables basic authentication for RSS requests only
  • iNotes_WA_DisableForceBasicAuthForAtom=1 Disables basic authentication for Atom requests only