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This web seminar introduces Microsoft Outlook Users to the Lotus Notes user interface and how to perform familiar Outlook tasks in Lotus Notes.

When you delete an email, it goes to your Trash folder, where it stays for a certain number of hours before being deleted forever. To change how long messages stay in the Trash folder before they are deleted forever, click File Preferences. Click Mail. On the Basics tab, enter a number of hours ...

If you are working offline and you click Send by mistake, you can still prevent the message from being sent. Before going back online, delete the message from your outgoing mailbox.

To count the number of messages in any mail folder or view in Notes, click Edit Select All, and see the number that displays in the status bar.

Lotus Notes works to preserve fidelity of text styles when you send or receive Internet mail, but if you discover that styles are lost, you can optimize certain settings for messages from both Notes mail and Internet mail users. Notes attempts to deliver your outgoing messages in the format ...

To reply to a message to someone whose email provider can read only plain text, you can use Reply with InternetStyle History. Select the email and then click Reply Reply with InternetStyle History or above the message list. This option sends the message in plain text, so Internet mail ...

You can choose to display only unread messages in folders or views in Notes mail. Follow these steps: In standard Notes Click Show above the message list, and then click Unread Only. To display the read messages again, click Show Unread Only again. Note: Notes saves this setting for the ...

You can use a mood stamp to indicate a particular type of message, such as a personal or thank you message. Notes displays the stamp next to the message in the recipient's Inbox and above the body of the message itself. Click Delivery Options above the message. In the Mood Stamp field, select a ...

You can change how often Notes checks for new mail, and whether it notifies you with a sound, a popup alert, an icon in the system tray, or a combination. You can also change these settings for Notes Minder, which checks for new messages when Notes is not running. You can also set one or more ...

If you have more than one signature, you can set one as your default, and import alternate signatures when you want to use them. For example, you may have a different signature for internal and external correspondences; you could set your internal signature as your default, and then import your ...

When you want to put an email in a folder, you have the choice to move it or add it. To move the email to a folder, click Move. To add the email to a folder (and leave a copy of it in the current folder), click Add. CAUTION: There is only one email. If you delete an email that is in multiple ...

Here are descriptions for the icons in Notes Mail, Calendar, and To Do. To see these descriptions when you hover over icons, follow these instructions: In standard Notes Click File Preferences (Macintosh OS X users: Click Lotus Notes Preferences), click Basic Notes Client Configuration, ...

You can flag an email to indicate that it requires you to take followup action. You can set the default priority flag, a default followup date and time, and a default alarm for flagged emails. The follow up date can be a number of days, weeks, or months after you flag the email, and the alarm ...

You can flag emails for followup, and then keep track of them in the Follow Up miniview. To flag an email for followup, select it, and then click the flag icon or the arrow next to it and select an option. Then you can keep track of the flagged emails in the Follow Up miniview in the bottom left ...

If you attempt to forward a Notes message and see only a Forwarded by line with your name, the original sender has prevented copying or forwarding of the message.

To forward a message to someone whose email provider can read only plain text, you can use InternetStyle Forward. Select the email and then click Forward InternetStyle Forward above the message list. This option sends the message in plain text, so Internet mail providers (which sometimes can ...

You can track sent messages, to learn what servers they move through. Open the Sent folder. Select the email you want to track, and then click More Track message. Select the recipient(s) to whom you sent the message that you want to track. To add any additional recipients, type or select a ...

Did you know that you can view conversations per mail message within mail messages? It will appear as a view in the top of your current mail message that you are reading. How To Turn It On In your mail message in read mode, you can display the conversation two ways. 1. From the menu bar choose ...

In Notes 8.5.2, you can set a preference to close an email after you reply to it or forward it. To set this preference, click File Preferences, click Mail, and then select Automatically close original email when replyingforwarding on the Basics tab.

A return receipt is a message that tells you that someone has opened an email you sent them. When the person opens the email, you get a message in your Inbox with the subject, recipient, and date time he or she opened the email. Here is an example return receipt: If you want to get return ...

In Notes 8.5.2, you can set a preference to always get a return receipt when recipients open mail you've sent to them. To set this preference, select File Preferences, select Mail, and then select the check box next to Send me a Return Receipt when recipients read mail I send.

In Notes 8.5.2, you can set the following Notes.ini to have the preview pane collapsed by default in mail and calendar: ShowPreviewCollapsedInitially1 Note: This only affects the default behavior. So, if you set this as 1, the preview pane will be collapsed the first time you open Notes. After ...

In Notes 8.5.2, you can set a preference to show details (such as Cc'd recipients and full email addresses) in the heading of emails you receive. To set for yourself To set this preference, click File Preferences, click Mail, and then select the check box next to Always show details in ...

This video shows how to display an email preview in the Notes sidebar.