# Contacts: your address book

- Adding a contact
- Removing a contact
- Editing a contact
- Creating a group contact

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 retreiving information from your contact list.

## Adding a contact

To add a contact

1. In the left pane, click Contacts. Your contact list appears in the right pane.
2. On the menu bar, click New Contact.
3. 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.

4. Click Add.

To add a contact from a message

- Drag the contact's email address from the From field to the Contacts folder.

  or

- 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

1. In the left pane, click Contacts. Your contact list appears in the right pane.
2. Select the contacts you wish to remove by checking the boxes to the left of the Display Names.
3. On the menu bar, click Delete.
4. Confirm that you want to Delete the contacts Forever.

## Editing a contact

To edit a contact

1. In the left pane, click Contacts. Your contact list appears in the right pane.
2. 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

1. In the left pane, click Contacts. Your contact list appears in the right pane.
2. On the menu bar, click New Group.
3. Fill in the contact information like you would for a regular contact, except
4. Group Email. Enter all of the addresses or nicknames separated by commas.
5. Click Add.