I have to use Lotus Notes… Unfortunately. It`s a good overall tool,
and mail client, but I don`t like it… Anyway but I have to use it.

I don`t use Microsoft Windows at work anymore. I have a gentoo box
which handles everything that I need, very efficiently. But I needed to
use Lotus Notes…

There are millions of Howto`s on the web on using Lotus Notes on wine. And I followed one (or any) of them. It really works. Well, for some emails… I had crashes every once in a while, or maybe 10-20 times a day!!!! So it wasn`t efficient at all…

As of writing, gentoo marks wine-0.9.22 as stable. And I was using an unstable wine release (0.9.28). I read some discussions on the bug 6376 where people had similar incidents when they upgraded from wine 0.9.21 to wine 0.9.22 (hello!)

I decided to downgrade to 0.9.21 by adding
“=app-emulation/wine-0.9.21” to /etc/portage/package.keywords, but
portage insisted that I should use wine 0.9.22!

So nice folks in #gentoo @ irc.freenode.org told me to mask everything
higher than latest stable by adding “>=app-emulation/wine-0.9.22” to
/etc/portage/package.mask

Now I`m running wine 0.9.21 and my Lotus Notes works very good. The
emails that were crashing the LN client are now readable and I`m a
happy puppy!