Configure Lotus Notes® as your E-Mail Client in ACT!

Configure Lotus Notes® as your E-Mail Client in ACT!
Question
  You would like to know how to configure ACT! 2009 to use Lotus Notes as an E-mail client.
 Answer  
  Note: ACT! expects when you choose Lotus Notes as your E-mail client in ACT! that it will be configuration to use the Domino server for messaging. E-mail will not send outbound if you have your Lotus Notes e-mail client configured to use a POP3 type messaging system and you have chosen to use the Lotus Notes e-mail client in ACT!. If your Lotus Notes e-mail is configured as a POP3 type of messages service, you can workaround this issue by using the built-in ACT! E-mail client (Internet Mail) in ACT!. For detailed information on how to setup Internet Mail, please refer to the following Knowledge Base Answer:
    Title: How To Configure Internet Mail as your E-mail Client in ACT! by Sage 2009 (11.0)
    Answer ID: 22985

ACT! E-mail supports use of Lotus Notes version 6.5, 7.02 and 8.0. It is imperative that Lotus Notes e-mail function independently to send and receive e-mail messages prior to configuring this e-mail software to function through ACT!.

The following are considerations when using Lotus Notes with ACT!:
  • Some of the ACT! e-mail features are limited.
  • Lotus Notes requires a password to access the ID file.
  • Messages can only be sent in plain text.
  • For mail merges, the recipient will receive the body of the message in plain text format. Images in the e-mail are delivered as attachments. For more information, see E-mail system support for the HTML format.
  • If using this system to access Internet e-mail, consider using the ACT! Internet Mail instead.
T o configure Lotus Notes as your e-mail client in ACT!, follow the steps below:

Note: If you choose to also use Microsoft® Outlook® with Lotus Notes you must choose the Use the ACT! e-mail program when configuring Outlook.
  1. Ensure that ACT! E-mail is closed.
  2. Click the Tools menu, and then click Preferences. The Preferences dialog box appears:



  3. Under the E-mail tab, click the E-mail System Setup button. The E-mail Setup Wizard appears.
  4. Click Next at the Welcome to the E-mail Setup Wizard dialog box. The E-mail dialog box appears:



  5. Click to enable the Lotus Notes e-mail system check box, and (if necessary) select the click here option to restore transferred email.

    To continue in the wizard, click Next. The E-Mail - Editor dialog box appears:



  6. On this page of the wizard, if you have more than one e-mail system configured for use with ACT!, you are able to select the e-mail system that you would like to use as the default for sending email. If you would like to create a signature, click the Edit Signatures button. The E-mail Signatures dialog box appears:



  7. Click the Add button, enter a name for your signature into the Signature names window, enter your desired signature into the Edit signature window, and then click OK. The E-Mail - Editor dialog box re-appears.
  8. Click Next. The E-mail Setup Complete dialog box appears:



  9. Click Finish to close the Finishing E-mail Setup dialog box