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If you are also not able to find the menus that you are used to, here are the menu mappings between the previous versions and Notes 8.

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The demonstration in this link shows visually how you can open another user’s Lotus Notes mail.

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Using IBM Lotus iNotes together with Lotus Mobile Connect clientless option provides secure remote access to enterprise iNotes servers from various devices like PDAs, notebooks, PCs, etc. With Lotus Mobile Connect, the security is provided with the following two options:

1. Lotus Mobile Connect provides a virtual private network for which the Lotus Mobile Connect client is installed on various supported user platforms.
2. For HTTP-based applications - like Lotus iNotes - Lotus Mobile Connect provides a clientless option. This option does not require any additional software to be installed on the remote device; instead, it provides secure authentication through a browser-based logon.

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In Lotus Notes 8.0.2, you need to modify the notes.css including in a JAR file for modifying font and color properties of unread/read documents. To update this jar file, you need to follow a special process.

• Stop your Notes Client
• Backup the initial jar file (com.ibm.notes.branding_8.0.2.20080809-0430.jar).
• Extract the notes.css, containing in the “themes” folder.
• Create a folder “themes” with notes.css in the folder “\framework\shared\eclipse\plugins”
• Modify the notes.css : For unread mail in red color, you just need to change the color value as described below:

            mailtable>row>unread {

              color: red;

              font-family: Tahoma, Times, Helvetica;

              …

• Launch the following command :

          jar uf com.ibm.notes.branding_8.0.2.20080809-0430.jar themes\notes.css

• Restart your Notes Client

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When another person has access to your Lotus Notes mail file, they can perform tasks for you, such as reading your mail and responding on your behalf.You decide how much access you want them to have. You allow access to your mail file by setting a Mail preference.

1. Click More
2. Click Preferences
3. Click the Access & Delegation tab
4. In Access to Your Mail & Calendar tab under Access & Delegation click Add,
5. In the new window (Add People/Groups window), click the arrow next to “Just this person or group” to select from a directory
6. Select a person or group from the window opened and then Click Ok,
7. Select the components to which you want to allow access (like Mail, Calender, To Do and Contacts / Calendar, To Do and Contacts / None,
8. Select the arrow in the Access frame to choose how much access you want your delegate to have.
9. Click Ok,
10. Click Ok to save your Access & Delegation preference

After following the above steps, you can successfully give someone else access to your e-mail!

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