Chris Miller has built an RSS feed for anyone who wants to keep up with IBM news on Lotus and is making it available from this page.

Tim Clark provides links to information on two XPages workshops. The first is June 10, in Switzerland, the second is June 16-17 in Manchester, UK.

MessageSolution, Inc. announced release of the Software as a Service (SaaS) version of the MessageSolution Enterprise Email Archive which supports all major email servers, including Microsoft Exchange Server, IBM Lotus Domino Server, Novell GroupWise Server, Scalix, Kerio, Zimbra, Imail, Qmail, MDaemon, and more.

Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1 allows you to push mail, contacts, and calendar items to an iPhone. It also adds Microsoft’s ActiveSync to Lotus Notes Traveler.

If you’re interested in trying it out, IBM has posted the beta version of Lotus Notes 8.5.1 for download. If you want to try it, without all the work of download and installation, Lotus Greenhouse will have the program available May 15.

Notes 8.5 does not have the ability to import or export the Lotus 123 .WKS format. At least not right out of the box. Dave Hay has posted links to a couple of items in the Notes Forum on the subject.

Sean Burgess has been having some problems with the Domino server’s LDAP service not being able to re-connect to the LDAP server after a re-boot. He’s wondering if he’s missed a setting somewhere.

Jan Kenney has posted a query from IBM in the Notes/Domino 8.5 forum asking whether ActiveSync support for Lotus Notes Traveler is a good idea. Should IBM continue working on the idea?

If you haven’t checked this one out before, Lotus Greenhouse is a collaborative community interested in growing ideas. Greenhouse offers full and free access to the products it hosts. The site requires registration.

Julian Buss has been using Dojo recently but finds he missing the plug-ins he used with jQuery. He’s wondering if you could point him to a site he hasn’t found yet.