Lotus Notes 8.5.1 contains many changes and improvements to the calendar features. Type-ahead addressing has now been added to the users' business card when highlighted. Now, the attachments appear at the top for all inbound MIME mail, as shown in the following screenshot: This one controls the setting for the bold black text for unread mail, as shown in the following screenshot:Īn improvement was made in the behavior of attachments in the message. The basic fields are filled in on basis of the information in your organization's directory, as shown in the following screenshot:Īnother preference called Fonts and Colors was added in 8.5.1. With a new preference setting under Preferences | Mail | Signature, you can append a vCard (.vcf) file to your signature (through the Append My vCard option). The ability to empty the trash has been added to the contextual menu, when right clicking from any mail view. This allows the user to control the amount of inbound messages they receive, by blocking spam right from the client. Spam control has now been integrated into the 8.5.1 client, when using Lotus Protector. Staying with the visual changes with the 8.5.1 client, there are now ten colors that can be assigned to a sender. The Recently Archived folder now lists all recently archived messages, categorized by the archived date (see the following screenshot):Īnother visual cue to the user, that was added, is in the subject line of a message opened or previewed from an archive. This will assist when someone is looking for a recently archived document as seen in the following screenshot: Archive, Other Mail, Follow-up, and Tools folders will not appear when the user is in the archive. This is to help the users visually identify which mail file they are currently accessing.
#Features of lotus notes 8.5 archive#
When the user is in an archive, the archive name is now highlighted in yellow. Lotus Notes 8.5.1 contained many changes and improvements to the Mail features. This section will highlight the following areas:
There were several new features introduced into the Lotus Notes 8.5.1 client.