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Jon Johnston
DominoPower Contributing Editor Jon Johnston is messaging consultant with Creative Business Solutions based out of Minneapolis, MN. He can be reached at jon@msphub.com.

Published articles
The following 7 articles by Jon Johnston have been published in ZATZ magazines.

AS/400 partitioning for Domino servers
In October 1999, we discussed the AS/400 for Domino platform from a non-technical perspective. This article goes into more depth about Domino for AS/400 and covers a major reason you might want to use AS/400 as a Domino platform: server partitioning. If you find yourself adding more and more NT servers or outgrowing your current implementation, you owe to yourself to read this article by Al Fishel and Contributing Editor Jon Johnston. [DominoPower Magazine, February 2000]Don't go postal: how to fix your mail.box
There are many things that can go wrong during mail routing. Many of these problems can be fixed rather easily by using Domino and several of its tools. These techniques will resolve most mail.box corruption problems. In this incredibly helpful article, Contributing Editor Jon Johnston shows you how to fix many of the typical problems with mail routing you may encounter. [DominoPower Magazine, December 1999]Why pick the AS/400 for Domino platform?
Successful Domino sites have to grow. But what's the right way to grow? What are the best platforms for larger Domino sites? Is NT the end-all and be-all of Domino hosting? In this fascinating article, Contributing Editor Jon Johnston examines the IBM AS/400 platform in detail. If you'd like to learn if the AS/400 is for you, read this article today. [DominoPower Magazine, October 1999]A review of the R5 client from a messaging perspective
It's perhaps the most anticipated new software release since, well, the last big software release. But is R5 really worth all the fuss? More to the point, is R5 really worth the effort and cost to upgrade? In this first of many DominoPower articles on Lotus new Release 5, Jon Johnston provides a detailed look at the new Notes client from a messaging perspective. The short answer is that the new client is most cool. You'll have to read Jon's article for the details. [DominoPower Magazine, April 1999]The care and feeding of your SMTP MTA
If you're going to live on the Internet, understanding the operation of the SMTP MTA (Message Transfer Agent) is critical. In this very important article, Jon Johnston tells you how the SMTP MTA works, and then helps you understand what you need to do to keep it working properly. This is one of those articles that's going to be printed out and taped to the side of the server. [DominoPower Magazine, February 1999]How I learned to stop worrying and love the SMTP MTA
It's not Dr. Strangelove, but sometimes configuring the various Domino gateways can often make you feel a bit crazy. In this excellent and critically important article, Jon Johnston takes us deeply inside the SMTP Message Transfer Agent (MTA) and shows us some incredibly valuable features you can use in your war against spammers. By simply tweaking a few settings in the NOTES.INI file, you can shoot down that barrage of unsolicited and unwelcome email messages sent by unscrupulous spammers. Armed with this powerful article, you can turn Notes, Domino and the SMTP MTA into your own Patriot missile battery and prevent unsolicited messages from ever landing in your users' email boxes. Go get 'em, General! [DominoPower Magazine, September 1998]The hidden power of Domino messaging
We often think of Domino as a great web server and groupware platform. But did you know it's an incredibly powerful messaging server? While the messaging capabilities of the Domino server are quite impressive, they're often overlooked -- and they shouldn't be. In fact, the messaging capabilities of Domino are probably its best-kept secret and a powerful secret weapon for your online arsenal. In this informative article, Jon Johnston helps us all learn more about this powerful aspect of Domino. [DominoPower Magazine, August 1998]


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