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Lotus Development Corp.'s Notes/Domino, the shining example of thoughtful integration of messaging, groupware and Internet technologies, carries forward the banner in Notes 4.6. By making several productivity enhancements to both the client and the server, Lotus continues to offer the most comprehensive suite of enterprise messaging applications.

Setting up and configuring the Domino environment has been dramatically enhanced with the addition of a flexible and simple, browser-based installation utility. With only a few information fields to complete, an administrator can have a Domino server fully configured and running within a matter of minutes.

Keeping in Touch With the new Notes client Portfolios, you view and swiftly navigate all facets of your electronic realm on one screen. A quick look at your e-mail, the day's schedule, to-do list, contacts and a couple of frequently used applications keep you in touch.

Flexibility in creating message types within Notes 4.6 lets you change an e-mail message into a calendar appointment or a to-do item. The Notes client lets you use Lotus Word Pro or Microsoft Word as your e-mail editor using Windows ActiveDoc technology. The client adds support for POP3, which lets users interact with their Internet mail as easily as they do with Notes mail. With Document Library you can share and route documents, such as proposals, plans and presentations, within Notes using built-in workflow capabilities. Also new in 4.6 is the ability to choose Microsoft Internet Explorer from within Notes to browse the Web, forward Web pages via e-mail, update or store local copies of your favorite Web pages.

Managing Your Address Book Contact management has never been easier with the ability to send mail, book a meeting or quickly transfer to a contact's Web site from within your address book. Business card-style addressing makes it easy to quickly enter contact information, and the number of fields has been increased to let you store more attributes about a particular contact.

New support for IMAP4, LDAP and NNTP (Network News Transport Protocol) and an updated HTTP server round out the innovative Internet technologies for Domino. Lotus also has fully integrated the SMTP/MIME Message Transfer Agent within the core Domino server. And Domino permits MIME-formatted content to be natively stored within the Domino object store.

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