Welcome
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.
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.
Have Domino IQ suggest a reply email
When replying to an email, you can choose an option to let Domino IQ draft a reply.

What's new in HCL Notes 14.5
Learn about the many new features and enhancements in HCL Notes 14.5.
About HCL Notes
The following topics provide information about HCL Notes.
Elements of Notes®
The HCL Notes® user interface is comprised of views menus, toolbars, navigation panes, and a sidebar that you can use for easy access to some frequently used applications.
Using the Discover page
HCL Notes® opens to the Discover page by default, unless you set up Notes to open to an application, such as Mail or Calendar, or to a customized home page. The default Discover page is a central location from which you can find targeted Notes client information more quickly and easily, including new features in the release, introductory material for new users, and helpful hints and tips. There is also a Quick Links tab that allows you to launch your workspace, Mail, Calendar, and other Notes applications you have recently used.
Using the Notes workspace
The HCL Notes® workspace, the legacy user interface for Notes, displays pages containing Notes application icons.
Using bookmarks
Bookmarks are links that point to HCL Notes® applications, views, documents, or Internet elements, such as Web pages and news groups. Bookmark folders organize your bookmarks. They can contain bookmarks or more folders.
Notes views and folders
Views display specific documents with similar criteria. For example, your Mail has an All Documents view that displays every document contained in the mail application, and a Sent view that displays only documents that you sent.
Printing
You print a single document or multiple documents at the same time. You can also print views (lists of documents in an HCL Notes® application) and the framesets found in both Notes and the Web.
Getting Started - Advanced
The topics in this section have been written for more advanced Notes users.
Tasks
The following topics provide details for common tasks in HCL Notes.
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.
- 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.
  - Color-coding messages from certain senders
    You can set preferences to color-code messages from different senders. This feature helps you scan your Inbox for high-priority messages.
  - Setting up out-of-office notifications
    You can use the out-of-office notification service to send an automated reply to people who send you mail while you are away. The automated reply tells people that you are out and when you will return.
  - Creating and using stationery
    Stationery helps you create an email template with text or graphics, letterhead, and a recipient list that you can re-use. This is convenient when you want to create a newsletter, or if you frequently send a message, such as a status report, in the same format.
  - Adding collapsible sections in an email
    You can show or hide text in a collapsible section in an email or other Notes document.
  - Creating tables in emails and other Notes documents
    You can add tables to emails, calendar entries, and other Notes documents. You can create basic, tabbed, collapsible, or nested tables.
  - Creating an email from a to do item or calendar entry
    You can create an email from a to do item or calendar entry. This is useful if you need to forward information to someone.
  - Displaying internet-style names
    You can customize the style of your Notes client to display internet-style addresses, such as samantha@exmaple.com, instead of Notes addresses. When you select this preference, internet-style addresses are used in preview and opened messages, and in the type-ahead list. In the type-ahead list, Notes addresses are shown in parentheses.
  - Sending a scheduled message
    Notes 14.0.0 makes sending a scheduled message easy.
  - Have Domino IQ suggest a reply email
    When replying to an email, you can choose an option to let Domino IQ draft a reply.
- 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.
Calendar
You can schedule meetings, manage your schedule, add other calendars, and more.
To Do
You can keep track of what you need to do, and assign tasks to others.
Contacts
You can save information about people, such as title, addresses, birthdays, and more. You can also do things such as create groups to use as mailing lists, or print contacts as labels.
Notes applications
An HCL Notes® application contains information about a particular area of interest, such as the forms and policy documents for a department, or it might contain documents of a similar type, such as email messages. In addition, some companies create "discussion applications," where employees can post responses to particular topics.
Blogs (web logs)
You can create your own personal Web logs (blogs) using the Notes® blog template (dominoblog.ntf). After you create a blog application, you can then open it as you would any other Notes® application (NSF) file. From your blog application, you can create and manage content and blog discussions.
Locations and accounts
This topic describes connections to servers, ways to connect to servers, and things you should know before setting up a server connection.
Automating tasks using simple agents
You can program Notes® to perform tasks automatically using agents (also known as macros). Agents can help you perform repetitive tasks, such as managing documents and sending memos.
Sharing information with other applications
You can share files and graphics between HCL Notes® and other applications using a number of different techniques.
Notes roaming user
As a Notes® roaming user, you can log in to and use Notes from any computer in your organization on which Notes is installed, and use your personal data while doing so. Your personal data includes many of your Notes preferences and personal information such as your contacts, bookmarks, notebook, feeds subscriptions, and optionally your Notes workspace. Notes widgets also participate in roaming.
Replication
You can create an offline (local) duplicate of any HCL Notes® application you use. Such a duplicate is called a replica.
Search
You can use search to find documents, text in a document, applications, and people. You can also set search preferences for type of search query syntax and scope of search.
Securing your data
HCL Notes® security enables you to protect your workspace and data at all times, so only you and the people you designate have access to your data.
Widgets and Live Text
Widgets and Live Text enables end users to see and act on Live Text in a document, including mail, using widgets (.XML files) created for their use. Power users and administrators can create and edit widgets, and deploy them to users to engage a Notes® form, view, XPage, document or Composite Application, or third party services such as Web page, feed, or Google Gadget™, or automatically install or update a client plug-in for specific Notes users.
Error messages
Notices

Have Domino IQ suggest a reply email

When replying to an email, you can choose an option to let Domino IQ draft a reply.

Before you begin

For you to use this feature, your Domino administrator must have Domino IQ configured with the default Domino IQ configuration database which supports this action. See Configuring the Domino IQ database for more information.

Note: This enhancement requires you to replace the design of your mail file with the mail145.ntf template.

Procedure

From your Inbox, click the email you want to reply to.
In the action bar, click Reply or Reply to All.
From the list, select Domino IQ Reply with History Only or Domino IQ Reply to All with History Only.

Domino IQ, with the help of an AI engine, provides helpful suggestions for your email responses.