Features enabled by the Mainsoft Mail template

Installing the optional Mainsoft Mail template in Lotus Notes enables the SharePoint button in the Mail message toolbar.

The Mainsoft Mail template enables the SharePoint button in the Notes Mail application.

The SharePoint button gives the user access to additional features in SharePoint Integrator:

  • Replace attachments with SharePoint links for outgoing messages
  • Get improved accessibility for common SharePoint operations around e-mail

Note: The SharePoint calendar integration functionality does not require deployment of the Mainsoft Mail template but just the regular Notes 8.5 Mail template.

Replace attachments with SharePoint links

From the SharePoint button, the user can override the default behavior of the Replace Attachments with SharePoint Links-feature for individual messages. He can enable or disabled the feature, and set the location where attachments are uploaded.

The Mail template also enables the SharePoint > E-mail Settings section in Preferences, where the default behavior for outgoing attachments is defined.

Note: The “replace attachments”-feature can be emulated without the Mail template by dragging attachments to the sidebar and the dragging the uploaded SharePoint documents to the message body.

Accessibility improvements for drag-and-drop operations involving e-mail

The SharePoint button gives the user additional ways of publishing e-mail messages and attachments on SharePoint as well as referring to SharePoint documents in messages. From the message tab the user can:

  • Attach a SharePoint document
  • Link to a SharePoint document
  • Publish the message on SharePoint
  • Publish attachments on SharePoint

Note: These operations are also available without the Mail template by using drag-and-drop or clipboard operations. Without the Mail template, the user can only publishing messages on SharePoint from the folder view (e.g. the Inbox).