159. Add New ContactsBEFORE YOU BEGIN Just jump right in! SEE ALSO 156 Send a Message 157 Reply or Forward a Message To send an email message, you need the recipient's email address. You can store frequently used addresses in the Contacts list (also known as the address book). By default, Thunderbird automatically saves the addresses of the people you send email to so that they are available should you need them again. When needed, you can easily grab addresses from incoming email and add them to the Contacts list as well. In addition, you can manually add addresses to the Contacts list for people you've neither received nor sent emails to. The address book actually has two sections: Personal Address Book and Collected Addresses . Typically, addresses you enter yourself are stored in the Personal Address Book section, while addresses Thunderbird gathers for you from incoming or outgoing messages are placed in the Collected Addresses section. 159. Add New Contacts TIPS To import addresses from an old email program, choose Tools, Import, choose Address Books and click Next , select your email program from those listed and click Next , and click Finish . To make changes to the way Thunderbird collects outgoing email addresses (or to turn the option off), choose Tools, Options , and on the Advanced page, in the General Settings section, enable the Automatically add outgoing e-mail addresses to my option, and choose the section you want the addresses stored in (such as Collected Addresses ). To add an email address from an incoming message to your Contacts list, display the message and, in the message header that appears above the message pane, click the sender's address and choose Add to Address Book from the context menu that appears.
NOTE To make changes to an existing contact, open the Address Book , select the contact, and click the Properties button. For example, you might want to add the email format your contact prefers (such as HTML) to prevent Thunderbird from asking you what format to use each time you send that person an email. To remove the contact, click the Delete button instead. |