In several mail-in and regular databases we have documents that appear to be "uneditable" - i.e. edit them and the edits appear not to save. In fact what is happening is that both the original and the edited doc are being saved because something has switched on "versioning". Needless to say this confuses users quite a lot.
It appears you can only tell versioning is enabled by looking inside the document properties for a field called $VersionOpt.
The form designs have versioning set to None, so something must be setting $VersionOpt.. but what might do that? Is there anything in a regular 8.5.3 mail client that sets document versioning? Any other ideas how this can happen?
(This link explains the background to Notes versioning - http://gg-lnotes.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/ways-to-do-version-controllingtracking.html)