Understanding Attachments

There might be times when you want to send a file to someone through email. That file might be a Lotus Notes database, a spreadsheet, a word-processing document, a compressed file, a graphic file, or a scanned photograph of your grandchildren—almost any type of file. In Lotus Notes, you can attach an entire file within the rich text field, or body, of your mail message and send it. The file you attach is a copy, so your original remains intact on your computer.

The user who receives your mail can detach your file and save it. If the recipient has the same application program in which the file was created, she can launch the application, opening the file in its native application.

Attachments can be placed only in rich text fields, and the body of the mail message (where you type your message) is the only rich text field in the Mail Memo form.