Creating an Address Book


You can't even remember your mother-in-law's name, so how do you expect to remember her e-mail address? Thunderbird's address book helps you do what computers were made to do — remember mundane details for us. After you build up your address book, Thunderbird helps you compose e-mails to your friends, family and coworkers easily.

Creating an address book can be a chore, but Thunderbird simplifies the task by helping you build it automatically. Whenever you send an e-mail, Thunderbird automatically adds the e-mail's recipients to your address book. Even though you don't necessarily want everyone you e-mail in your address book, having them there doesn't really hurt anything because searching for an address later takes about the same amount of time even with a handful of unnecessary addresses.

If you want to manually add an address to your address book, you have two ways to do it. If the person you want to add sends you an e-mail, you can add his or her address from the e-mail itself. The Message pane already contains the sender's address, so just click it (with either the left or right mouse button) and choose Add to Address Book from the menu that appears, as shown in Figure 10-9.

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Figure 10-9: Build your address book quickly and easily from the Message pane.

Otherwise, if you know the person's e-mail address, you can manually create a new card (which is like a record) in your address book by choosing Fileimage from book Newimage from book Address Book Card and filling out the window that appears. You can enter all sorts of information into an Address Book card, but filling out the first name, last name, and e-mail address is a good place to start.

After you add a name and address to your address book, Thunderbird can suggest it when you begin typing either one into the address field of an e-mail, as I discuss in the earlier section, "Composing E-Mails." You can also select it manually from the Contacts Sidebar of the Compose window, which I also discuss in that section.




Firefox For Dummies
Firefox For Dummies
ISBN: 0471748994
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 157
Authors: Blake Ross

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