Chapter 3. Email Basics

In this chapter, you learn about sending mail, reading your incoming mail, and replying to your mail.

Opening Your Mail Inbox

Mail, like all information found in Lotus Notes, is stored in a database. The stored mail includes copies of messages you’ve received and sent, as well as some specialized documents such as calendar entries and tasks. To open your mail database, click on the mail hotspot on the Welcome page or click the Mail bookmark.

When you first open a Lotus Notes database (such as Mail), the display is split into two large panes called the Navigation pane and the View pane. The titles of the available views are displayed in the pane on the left (the Navigation pane), and more specific information is displayed in ...

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