How to Send Email on Lotus Notes

Lotus Notes is an email application that performs tasks similar to those of Microsoft Outlook. It has many features beyond email, such as a calendar that can send meeting invitations; an address book, used to fill in information in the recipient fields; and business-specific features such as automatic "Out of Office" reply. If Lotus Notes is set up as the default email software in an enterprise, then it can look up users' email addresses via the "To:" field, using just the first few letters of a name.

Instructions

1. Open the Lotus Notes application and click on "New Memo." Alternatively, you can use the menus to click "File," "New," "New Memo."

2. Type the email address of the recipient in the "To:" field. Separate multiple addresses with commas. Lotus Notes will search its address book or the email directory of your employer to fill in the address automatically once you start typing in the "To:" field.

3. If necessary, add "cc:" and "bcc:" email addresses in the corresponding fields. You may press the "Tab" key or click in the fields to move the cursor.

4. Press the "Tab" key to move to the "Subject:" field and type in a brief subject line for the email.

5. Press "Tab" again to move to the body of the email. Type the message, then click on "Send" button once you are finished. (You can also attach a file before sending the email by clicking on the paper clip icon located on the menu toolbar, browsing to the file and then double-clicking it to attach).

Tips & Warnings

• If the option is enabled, Lotus Notes will automatically run a spell-check before sending.

References

• IBM