I installed the Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook. This is the IBM utility for Domino. Forget about the free Microsoft download, I could not get that to even recognize my mailbox. Anyway, this utility installed, and while the interface to mail was much nicer in Outlook 2007, there is still no joy with this marriage.
Here's the problem: All message changes are stored locally in Outlook, and are not passed back to Lotus...sort of like a download to offline mode. Any attempt to modify these preferences seems to be an exercise in futility.So if you read a message in Outlook, it will still be marked as unread if you browse to your mail on the Lotus Notes client. The same is true for messages you move to folders, or delete. No matter what you do, these instructions are not passed back to Lotus. So if you commit to using Outlook as your client you can forget about ever using the Lotus client again. This is especially challenging in situations where you might want to check for mail or calendar items from a web browser while on the road. With the Lotus web client (unless there is an OWA client...but I assume this is non-existent) you would have a very difficult time navigating your Inbox. Not to mention the fact that as cleanup never occurs on your mailbox you will undoubtedly be getting a call from your mail administrator when you've reached your storage limit.
Ive used DAMO (Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook) quite a bit and while it is far from perfect, it is not as bad as you make out.
It sounds like you tried it on Outlook 2007, which is not currently supported. If you try it with Outlook 2003, I think you will have much more success.
Yes I tend to use current applications..stepping backward to a version of Office 5 years old doesn't make much sense. The rest of my stack is Office 2007 and that's where it will remain.
And yes, DAMO is as bad as I make out. That was a real 2 day exercise with the application...no fantasy.