Attaching Email in Lotus Notes 8

Question

How can I attach an older email message that I received to a new email message that I am composing in Lotus Notes 8? Or, is there a way to save an email as a file? Then that file could be attached like any other.

Solution 1

Okay, it's a little convoluted, but I figured out how to do it. For each email to be saved as an attachment...

1. Open it in Notes, select the entire thing (Ctrl+A), and paste it into Word.
2. Do a "Save As..." in Word, and save the file as a Single File Web Page (*.mht).
3. Change the file extension of the saved file from .mht to .eml.
4. The saved emails (.eml files) can be attached to the new message.

Solution 2

The .eml attachment though can be viewer only if you are using MS outlook.

So this means, you can send the attachment using Lotus Notes but cannot watch it in Lotus Notes itself, this is a handicap here.

Solution 3

Inbox hit shift click on the emails you want to send hit forward. This allows you to join emails that are not related to each other.

Comments

[Admin]

I have tried it our but it does not work in other computer. I mean for example, I sent the email to other person in my company and attached another email like the way you said. But the person to whom I have sent the mail he cannot open the attached email.

[Mikhail]

So I heard a lot of complains about MS Outlook, but now after reading this & working with Lotus Notes for some time - I just wondering how this "convenient/user-friendly" email client can be tolerated on such a scale (number of implementations / user base) / prolonged period of time (i.e. still alive and well) :) Obviously this system should has some hidden gems (has it?) which absolutely not visible to end-users

[Scott - Слава Україні]

This is the same as the three-year-old accepted answer, but less detailed.

[user3454439]

Sorry I don't find this answer to be useful. The action suggested just join emails, but then what? How to attach?

[user3454439]

Come on, Lotus Notes, you can do better. Attach email is just a simple thing. Why one has to use an external application to help out? Notes is drafted by the easy of use of Outlook.