Lotus Notes / HCL Domino estate recovery

Many companies keep a Lotus Notes / HCL Domino server on life support for one reason only: years of exchanges, decisions and attachments are locked inside it. The usual reflex — grab the `.nsf` files and open them elsewhere — is a dead end: the content of an `.nsf` is encrypted by Domino and holds no usable text outside the server. Our approach starts from the opposite fact: the server itself renders the decrypted content to an authenticated user. We therefore extract the estate through that path — messages, views and attachments — then classify it by business topic to turn it back into usable material: a searchable archive, a knowledge base, or an input corpus for document RAG.

Benefits

• Unblocks decommissioning: the Domino server can be shut down once the estate is extracted and verified
• Bypasses the encrypted .nsf lock, where off-server reading attempts fail
• Makes the history searchable again, instead of an archive nobody can open
• Feeds directly into the next step: the extracted corpus supplies a document RAG with no heavy reprocessing