Contacts: your address book
Contacts allow you to store names, email addresses, and other information in a contact list, which serves as an address book. You can quickly send mail to a contact by retrieving information from your contact list.
Adding a contact
To add a contact
- In the left pane, click Contacts. Your contact list appears in the right pane.
- On the menu bar, click New Contact.
- Fill in the contact information:
- Nickname. A short name that you can use for quick addressing. If you type the nickname instead of the full display name or email address, Alpine will offer a list of matching choices from your contacts list and the University of Washington directory. You can select the contact from the list.
- Display Name. The name that appears in the message header.
- Email. The contact's email address.
- Notes. Any text you want. Used only by you.
- Fcc Folder. A folder that will receive copies of all messages that you send directly to this contact.
- Click Add.
To add a contact from a message
- Drag the contact's email address from the From field to the Contacts folder.
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- To the right of the From field, click Add.
To add multiple contacts from a message
- On the menu bar, click More Actions, and then select Extract. Alpine extracts everything in the message that is in the format of an email address and presents a list of contacts. You can confirm each contact.
Removing a contact
- In the left pane, click Contacts. Your contact list appears in the right pane.
- Select the contacts you wish to remove by checking the boxes to the left of the Display Names.
- On the menu bar, click Delete.
- Confirm that you want to Delete the contacts Forever.
Editing a contact
To edit a contact
- In the left pane, click Contacts. Your contact list appears in the right pane.
- Click on the Display Name to edit the corresponding entry.
Creating a group contact
A group contact is simply a contact with more than one email address.
To add a group contact
- In the left pane, click Contacts. Your contact list appears in the right pane.
- On the menu bar, click New Group.
- Fill in the contact information like you would for a regular contact, except
- Group Email. Enter all of the addresses or nicknames separated by commas.
- Click Add.