If I had to come up with a quick-n-dirty solution for your case, I'd probably forget Linux for now and go with ODBC, ActiveState Perl on Win32, and DBD::ODBC...

Before anyone kills me for saying this, I'll explain:
I checked through CPAN, I noticed that the only mention of a LotusNotes interface was listed as an idea which means there is no available code. Tough break there...

Therefor, it seems that the only imediate solution would be setting up a Win32 server (which I know for a FACT has an Lotus ODBC driver), install ActiveState's distro, install DBI and DBD::ODBC via PPM and you're off! Just don't expect the machine to perform well under stress, after all you will be:
1. On a Windows machine.
2. Using ODBC
3. Loading DBD::ODBC as the 3rd layer

There might be a way of doing this via Linux and ODBC as well, but I can't help you there since I have absolutely no idea if there is a Lotus client for Linux and/or ODBC support.
I hope this helps as an alternative...

#!/home/bbq/bin/perl
# Trust no1!

In reply to Re: Accessing a Lotus Notes Database by BBQ
in thread Accessing a Lotus Notes Database by scoombs

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