Mail
You can send and answer email, create signatures, and customize the look of your Inbox. You can also do things, like cancel an email sent by mistake or set up out of office notifications.
- Getting started with Mail
  You can send, receive, and organize emails, and more.
- Mail quick reference
  This quick reference includes a screen image, which explains the basics in Mail, as well as tables that list other commonly-used tasks and shortcuts.
- Personalizing your Mail settings
  You can change mail preferences to personalize your mail experience.
  - How do I add my signature to emails?
    You can add a signature to email messages. Signatures can include your name, title, graphics, vCard, and other information.
  - How do I change settings for the preview pane in Mail?
    You can show or hide the preview pane, and you can display it on the bottom or the side.
  - How do I mark all previewed emails as read?
    You can mark all messages you view in the preview pane as read.
  - How do I view emails as conversations?
    You can view a message grouped with all of its replies so that you can read the message and replies all at one time. A message grouped with all of its replies is called a conversation and conversations save you the trouble of looking through your Inbox to find individual replies.
  - How do I change who is added to the type-ahead list?
    The addresses that appear in the type-ahead list are chosen automatically, based on the people with whom you recently emailed, chatted, and had meetings. You can change whether or not CC and BCC recipients are added to the type-head list, or whether to add names from all emails or just from emails you send. You can also choose to stop adding any names to the type-ahead list.
  - How do I set a default font for mail?
    You can set a default font for mail that you send.
  - Setting the default font in notes.ini
    You can now set the default font as a notes.ini setting policy.
- Keeping your Inbox clean
  You can manage junk mail, mail quotas, and meeting notices, to keep your Inbox cleaner.
- Mail access and delegation
  You can let others view or edit your mail, or open other people's mail if they have given you access.
- Other things you can do with Mail
  You can do more things with Mail, such as color-code messages in your Inbox or set up Out-of-Office notifications.
- Troubleshooting Mail
  You can get help solving problems in mail.
- Advanced Mail topics
  You can learn more about what you can do with Mail.
- SwiftFile
  SwiftFile is an intelligent assistant for HCL Notes that helps you organize your e-mail into folders.

Setting the default font in notes.ini

You can now set the default font as a notes.ini setting policy.

About this task

To set the default font as a notes.ini setting, complete the following steps:

Procedure

Open the notes.ini file.
Set MailEditorFontAsDefault=<Font FACE NAME>,<FONT SIZE>.
Example: MailEditorFontAsDefault=Arial Black,10
To see these changes, restart the Notes client.
To override this default, select the text and click Text > Set Current Font as Mail Default.