External links
- Lotus iNotes home page
- Lotus Notes and Domino home page
- IBM Notes and Domino Wiki Archived 2013-07-27 at the Wayback Machine
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HCL iNotes (formerly IBM Lotus iNotes and IBM iNotes) offers a full-featured web-based version of HCL Technologies's HCL Notes client. Formerly known as IBM Lotus Domino Web Access, HCL iNotes provides HCL Notes users with browser-based access to their HCL Notes mail, calendar, and contacts. The software combines with HCL Domino software to provide a client interface that is available both online and offline. It provides access to collaboration tools using a variety of Web browsers across multiple platforms.
HCL iNotes comes as a feature in HCL Domino. The administrator can turn this feature on to allow access to emails via browser. Domino administrators can maintain and control a standard and consistent experience for users through centralized Lotus Domino administrative policies that set or enforce mail settings for Lotus iNotes users. In addition, Lotus iNotes has full offline support via Domino Off-Line Services (DOLS), integrated instant messaging.
Most of this article has been merged into the HCL Notes article.
Lotus iNotes includes three modes for users accessing their Notes mail:
HCL iNotes allows users of HCL Notes to access their Domino-based mail, calendar, schedule, to-do list, contacts, and notebook (Notes Journal) from any computer which has a certified web-browser and an Internet connection. It uses dynamic HTML and Ajax to provide a rich user-experience while minimizing the number of full-page refreshes and transactions interacting with the Domino web server.
iNotes also integrates with the HCL Sametime instant-messaging software [1] and offers offline support through IBM Lotus Domino Off-Line Services (DOLS).
If you're running the web version of the Notes e-mail system known as iNotes, you can easily have Sametime up and running just by signing on to your e-mail through a web browser
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