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description: If you’re using Lightning Experience, you can email contacts, leads, and your own colleagues directly from account, person account, contact, lead, opportunity, campaign, and case records you have access to. You can send an email to any valid email address, and attach files to your emails.
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# Manage Email in Lightning Experience

If you’re using Lightning Experience, you can email contacts, leads, and your own colleagues directly from account, person account, contact, lead, opportunity, campaign, and case records you have access to. You can send an email to any valid email address, and attach files to your emails.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Essentials</strong>, <strong>Professional</strong>, <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> editions</td></tr></tbody></table>

- **[Send Email from a Record in Lightning Experience](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.send_email_directly_from_crm_record.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Send rich-text email, including attachments, directly from the record you’re on. Send to customers, colleagues, or any valid email address.
- **[Email Attachments](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.access_sharing_attachments.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    It’s important to understand how access and sharing work for merge fields, email templates, and attachments.
- **[Merge Fields and Templates in Emails](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.access_sharing_merge_fields.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Use merge fields and email templates in your emails to increase accuracy and productivity.
- **[Find Email Sent from a Salesforce Record in Lightning Experience](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.email_find_sent_in_record_feed.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    After you send an email, Salesforce creates an email record to track the email and store its content. The activity feed includes a link to that email. If you sent an email to a contact or lead, each of those records includes a link to the email.
- **[View Email Engagements on Email Records](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.email_view_details_engagements.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    When reviewing an email details page, sales reps now see the complete list of engagements pertaining to that outbound email.
- **[Considerations for Insert Availability in Lightning Experience Desktop](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.email_insert_availability.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Be aware of these considerations for using Insert Availability in Lightning Experience desktop.
- **[Considerations for Email Replies in Lightning Experience](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.email_reply_considerations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Be aware of these considerations when replying to emails in Lightning Experience.
- **[Schedule Emails with Send Later](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.email_schedule_send_later_parent.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    As sales reps send emails to leads and contacts, they can schedule the emails so that they arrive at the most optimal time. Set up Scheduled Emails in Lightning Experience so that reps can update the content of a scheduled email and change its scheduled date and time.
- **[Use the Email Action in Lightning Experience](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.email_send_email_parent.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    The Lightning Email action allows emails to be sent from anywhere in Salesforce. It allows greater customization, such as adding and removing fields or specifying predefined values. The action also supports all objects which have activities enabled, and can be invoked from anywhere in Lightning Experience.