"sent" vs "outbox"

[bbriley]

I am trying Lotus Notes R5 as an alternative to MS Outlook 2000. My question has to do with the location of queued up outgoing mail (before it has been sent to the smtp server). Where is it stored? How can I see what is in the queue? A copy of the mail is put into the "sent" box as soon as I have composed it and hit "send." But where is the "outbox" where mail is queued until sent to the internet smtp server?

Thanks for any help.

Bob Riley

 

[lamaar]

If you are working offline then Notes stores your outgoing mail in a mal box named (mail.box). If you do not have the icon on your workspace - simply go file - database - open - type 'mail.box' in the filename. Lamaar75@hotmail.com

 

[gamesman]

The SMTP agent has an inbox and outbox. Unless you are the administrator or have access to the server you generally don't have access.

"sending" a message actuates an agent that compares your sendto, copyto, and blindcopyto fields to the NAB (notes address book) and attempts to resolve addresses locally or to the internet (I'm skipping over trusted domains). The mail.box will then direct locally addressed mail into the recipients mailbox and process internet mail via the configuration of your SMTP agent. Basically without all the details it puts the message into the SMTP Mail out box which processes it.

The offline mailbox that Lamaar mentioned is a local database that queue's up your mail like Outlooks Outbox until to you reconnect to the server (or replicate) at which time the process begins.