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<h1 id="using_address_books">Using Address Books</h1>
<div class="contentsBox">In this section:
<ul>
<li><a href="#about_address_books">About Address Books</a></li>
<li><a href="#adding_entries_to_your_address_books">Adding Entries to Your
Address Books</a></li>
<li><a href="#creating_a_new_address_book">Creating a New Address
Book</a></li>
<li><a href="#creating_a_new_address_book_card">Creating a New Address Book
Card</a></li>
<li><a href="#creating_a_mailing_list">Creating a Mailing List</a></li>
<li><a href="#editing_a_mailing_list">Editing a Mailing List</a></li>
<li><a href="#searching_address_books_and_directories">Searching Address
Books and Directories</a></li>
<li><a href="#importing_address_books">Importing Address Books</a></li>
<li><a href="#exporting_address_books">Exporting Address Books</a></li>
<li><a href="#adding_and_removing_ldap_directories">Adding and Removing
LDAP Directories</a></li>
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<h2 id="about_address_books">About Address Books</h2>
<p>Address books store email addresses and contact information for people you
typically send mail to, such as colleagues, friends, and family.
&brandShortName; Mail & Newsgroups provides you with two address books:
the Personal Address Book and the Collected Addresses—and you can
create additional address books as well. You can also import address books
from other mail programs and previous versions of &brandShortName;. The
contents of these address books are stored locally on your hard disk.</p>
<p>Your address book may also list email addresses from an LDAP directory,
which is located on an LDAP directory server. The directory server stores
email addresses of people that are not included in your locally-stored
address books. The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is an
industry-standard method for accessing Internet or intranet directory
services such as corporate address books.</p>
<h4>Personal Address Book</h4>
<p>Use the Personal Address Book to add specific names of your choice. You can
create mailing lists and edit individual address entries.</p>
<h4>Collected Addresses</h4>
<p>By default, the Collected Addresses automatically collects the email
addresses contained in outgoing mail messages. Addresses from outgoing
messages are stored in the Collected Addresses as soon as you click Send.</p>
<h4>LDAP Directory (if available)</h4>
<p>An LDAP directory (also known as an address lookup service) stores email
addresses of recipients who are not in your locally-stored address books.
LDAP directories offer you access to large, centrally maintained databases
of email addresses, which is especially useful with
<a href="mailnews_preferences.xhtml#address_autocompletion">address
autocompletion</a>.</p>
<p>Automatic address collection is enabled by default. To change automatic
address collection settings, begin in the Mail window:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Under the Mail & Newsgroups category, click Addressing. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Mail & Newsgroups to expand the
list.)</li>
<li>Under Email Address Collection, select <q>Add email addresses to my</q>
and choose whether you want:
<ul>
<li>Personal Address Book.</li>
<li>Collected Addresses.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Click OK.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Opening the Address Book Window</h4>
<p>To open the Address Book window:</p>
<ul>
<li>Open the Window menu and choose Address Book, or click the Address Book
icon in the lower-left corner of any &brandShortName; window.
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</ul>
<h4>Changing the Address Book Window Display</h4>
<p>To customize how the Address Book window and the cards are displayed:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the Window menu and choose Address Book. You see the Address Book
window.</li>
<li>In the Address Book window, open the View menu and choose from the
following display options:
<ul>
<li>Choose Show/Hide, and then select the item you wish to uncheck (hide)
or check (show).</li>
<li>Choose Show Name As, and then select how you want card names
displayed (first/last, last/first, or Display Name).</li>
<li>Choose Sort by, and then select a sort option.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<p>[<a href="#using_address_books">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="adding_entries_to_your_address_books">Adding Entries to Your Address
Books</h2>
<p>You can use any of the following ways to add entries to your address
books:</p>
<ul>
<li>Click a name in the From or recipient fields (for example, To or Cc) in a
message you've received, and then select <q>Add to Address Book</q>
from the drop-down list.</li>
<li>In the Address Book window, click New Card to create a new address book
card.</li>
<li>Send a message, which automatically adds the recipient's address
to your address book (if enabled).</li>
<li>In the Address Book window, copy entries to another address book by
selecting the entries and dragging them over the name of the address book
you want to copy them to.</li>
</ul>
<p>[<a href="#using_address_books">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="creating_a_new_address_book">Creating a New Address Book</h2>
<p>&brandShortName; Mail & Newsgroups provides a default personal address
book, but you can create additional address books.</p>
<p>To create a new address book:</p>
<ol>
<li>Click the Address Book icon in the lower-left corner of any
&brandShortName; window, or open the Window menu and choose Address Book.
You see the Address Book window.
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<li>In the Address Book window, open the File menu, choose New, and choose
Address Book. You see the New Address Book dialog box.</li>
<li>Type the name of the new address book, and click OK.</li>
</ol>
<p>[<a href="#using_address_books">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="creating_a_new_address_book_card">Creating a New Address Book Card</h2>
<p>Address book cards can be used to store names, postal addresses, email
addresses, phone numbers, and information such as whether the addressee
prefers to receive plain-text or HTML-formatted messages.</p>
<p>To create an address book card for an individual:</p>
<ol>
<li>Click the Address Book icon on the status bar or open the Window menu and
choose Address Book.</li>
<li>Click New Card. (If you have multiple address books, select the one to
which you want to add a card.)</li>
<li>Each New Card dialog box has three tabs:
<ul>
<li><strong>Contact</strong>: Enter the following information:
<ul>
<li>First and Last (first and last name of person as you want it to
appear in the address book).</li>
<li>Display name (the name that appears in the <q>To</q> field of the
Compose window).</li>
<li>Nickname (a shortcut or alias for the real name).</li>
<li>Email address (primary and additional address).</li>
<li>Prefers to receive messages formatted as: If you know this
recipient can read HTML-formatted messages (such as messages that
include links, images, or tables), choose HTML. If this recipient
can only read messages sent as plain text (no formatting), then
choose Plain Text. If you don't know or are not sure, choose
Unknown. If you choose Unknown, &brandShortName; Mail &
Newsgroups determines the sending format based on the Mail &
Newsgroups Send Format settings in the Preferences dialog box. If
Mail & Newsgroups still can't determine the correct
format, Mail & Newsgroups will prompt you to choose a sending
format when you send the message.</li>
<li>Allow remote images in HTML mail: If you want to allow this
sender to have remote content they send you displayed in your
message window.</li>
<li>Screen name (the AIM contact name).</li>
<li>Phones (enter phone numbers for this person)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Address</strong>: Type additional information such as street
address, phone number, and URL.
<p><strong>Tip</strong>: If you enter address information,
&brandShortName; displays a Get Map button next to the address when
you view this entry's address book card in your address book.
Clicking the Get Map button displays a web page that contains a map
to the address.</p>
</li>
<li><strong>Other</strong>: Store any additional information you
want.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Tip</strong>: To quickly add entries to your address book, click any
email address in messages you receive and select Add to Address Book from the
drop-down list. The New Card dialog box appears where you can complete the
information.</p>
<h3 id="viewing_or_editing_card_properties">Viewing or Editing Card
Properties</h3>
<p>To view or edit the properties for an individual card:</p>
<ol>
<li>Select the card from the list of entries in the Address Book window.</li>
<li>Click Properties.</li>
</ol>
<p>[<a href="#using_address_books">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="creating_a_mailing_list">Creating a Mailing List</h2>
<p>If you regularly send messages to a group of recipients, you can quickly
address a message by using a mailing list that contains the names you
want.</p>
<p>To create a mailing list and add it to your address book:</p>
<ol>
<li>In the Address Book window, click New List.</li>
<li>Enter the following information in the Mailing List dialog box:
<ul>
<li>Click the drop-down list at <q>Add to</q> to choose an address book
in which to store the list.</li>
<li>List name: When you enter the list name in the <q>To</q> field of a
message, everyone on the list receives your message.</li>
<li>List nickname: Alias (or shortcut) for the list name.</li>
<li>Description: Appears after the list name in the address line of
the Compose window.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Type email addresses to add them to the mailing list.</li>
<li>Click OK.</li>
</ol>
<p>In the left side of the Address Book window, the mailing list appears
underneath the address book you added it to.</p>
<p>[<a href="#using_address_books">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="editing_a_mailing_list">Editing a Mailing List</h2>
<p>Mailing lists are stored in the address book in which you created them.</p>
<p>To remove a member from the list, begin from the Mail window:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the Window menu and choose Address Book.</li>
<li>Expand the address book containing your mailing list by clicking the
small triangle beside the address book title.</li>
<li>Highlight the mailing list by clicking its name. The list members appear
to the right of the mailing list name.</li>
<li>Click the entry you wish to delete.</li>
<li>Click the Delete button.</li>
</ol>
<p>To add members to a mailing list:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open Window menu and choose Address Book.</li>
<li>Expand the address book containing your mailing list by clicking the
small triangle beside the address book title.</li>
<li>Highlight the mailing list by clicking its name.</li>
<li>Click Properties.</li>
<li>Add or remove entries as necessary.</li>
<li>Click OK when you are done.</li>
</ol>
<p>[<a href="#using_address_books">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="searching_address_books_and_directories">Searching Address Books and
Directories</h2>
<p>&brandShortName; Mail & Newsgroups lets you quickly search an address
book or directory by name or email address, or use a combination of criteria
to perform a more specific search through an address book or directory.</p>
<p>To quickly search an address book or directory for a name or email address,
begin from the Address Book window:</p>
<ol>
<li>In the Address Book window, in the list of address books, select the
address book or directory that you want to search.</li>
<li>In the <q>Name or Email contains</q> field, type the name or email
address that you want to find. You can type only part of the name or email
address, or you can type the exact text that you want to find.
<p>As soon as you stop typing, &brandShortName; Mail & Newsgroups
displays only those entries where the name or email address contains the
search text you entered.</p>
</li>
<li>Click Clear to erase the search text and show all entries.</li>
</ol>
<h3 id="searching_for_specific_entries">Searching for Specific Entries</h3>
<p>You can search address books or directories for specific entries. If you are
not already viewing the Advanced Address Book Search dialog box, begin from
the Address Book window:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the Tools menu and choose Search Addresses. You see the Advanced
Address Book Search dialog box.</li>
<li>Next to <q>Search in</q>, choose the address book or directory through
which you want to search.</li>
<li>Select the matching option Mail & Newsgroups uses to search for
entries either that match all or at least one of the conditions (criteria)
that you choose.</li>
<li>Click More to add criteria and Fewer to remove them.</li>
<li>Click Search to begin, or click Clear to reset your entries. The search
results appear in lower part of the dialog box.</li>
<li>To sort the entries in a different order, click the column that you want
to sort by.</li>
<li>To view the card for an entry, select the entry and click
Properties.</li>
<li>To compose a message to selected recipients, select one or more entries
and click Compose.</li>
</ol>
<p>[<a href="#using_address_books">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="importing_address_books">Importing Address Books</h2>
<p>If you have a &brandShortName; address book from another user profile or
computer, or if you have an address book from another mail program, you can
import its entries into the Address Book window as a new address book. Keep
in mind that when you upgrade a user profile from an earlier version of
&brandShortName;, your address books are automatically included, so
there's no need to import them.</p>
<p>You can import address books from Netscape 6, Netscape 7, Eudora, Outlook,
Outlook Express, or text files (LDIF, tab-delimited (.tab), comma-separated
(.csv), or text (.txt) formats). When you import an address book, Mail &
Newsgroups creates a new address book with the imported entries.</p>
<p>You can also
<a href="mailnews_getting_started.xhtml#importing_mail_from_other_programs">import
mail messages and settings</a> from Communicator, Eudora, Outlook, and
Outlook Express.</p>
<p>To import an address book, begin from the Mail window:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the Tools menu, and choose Import. You see the Mail Import
Wizard.</li>
<li>Follow the instructions to import address books.</li>
</ol>
<p>[<a href="#using_address_books">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="exporting_address_books">Exporting Address Books</h2>
<p>You can export a &brandShortName; address book if you later want to import
it into another user profile, move it to another computer, or use it with
another program that can import address books. You can export an address
book to one of these file formats: &brandShortName; (.ldif), tab-delimited
(.tab), comma-separated (.csv), or text (.txt) formats.</p>
<p>To export an address book, begin from the Address Book window:</p>
<ol>
<li>Select the address book that you want to export.</li>
<li>Open the Tools menu, and choose Export.</li>
<li>In the Export Address Book dialog box, browse to the location where you
want to save the address book file.</li>
<li>Choose the file format for the exported address book (.ldif,
comma-separated, or tab-delimited).</li>
<li>Enter a name for the address book file. Be sure to include the
appropriate file extension (.ldif, .csv, .tab, or .txt).</li>
<li>Click Save.</li>
</ol>
<p>[<a href="#using_address_books">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="adding_and_removing_ldap_directories">Adding and Removing LDAP
Directories</h2>
<p>Adding an LDAP directory to your address book allows you to search the
directory for email addresses and other contact information. You can also use
the directory for address autocompletion when addressing mail messages.</p>
<p>You typically add or remove LDAP directories using instructions provided by
your system administrator. Check with your system administrator for the
information you will need in order to add a new directory to your address
book.</p>
<p>To add a new directory, begin from the Address Book window:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the File menu, and choose New, and then choose LDAP Directory. You
see the Directory Server Properties dialog box.</li>
<li>Type the following information in the Directory Server Properties dialog
box General tab:
<ul>
<li><strong>Name</strong>: Enter the name of the directory service (for
example, InfoSpace Directory).</li>
<li><strong>Host Name</strong>: Enter the name of the host name server,
such as ldap.infospace.com.</li>
<li><strong>Base DN</strong>: This setting is used to set the Base
distinguished name. Enter codes to restrict searching to a specific
country or organization. For example, c=JP restricts the search to
Japan only. Base DN also specifies the organization to search on
within the directory (for instance, o=Netscape Communications
Corporation, c=US).</li>
<li><strong>Port Number</strong>: Enter the port number for the LDAP
server. The default is 389.</li>
<li><strong>Bind DN</strong>: The distinguished name that is used to
authenticate (log in) to the LDAP server. If left blank, the LDAP
server binds anonymously.</li>
<li><strong>Use secure connection (SSL)</strong>: Choose this setting
if your LDAP server supports secure (encrypted) connections. If you are
unsure, contact your system administrator.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Click the Advanced tab to configure LDAP directory server settings.</li>
<li>Type the following information:
<ul>
<li><strong>Don't return more than _ results</strong>: This setting
lets you limit the number of autocompletion matches returned by the
directory server. Enter the maximum number of email address matches
to display for autocompletion.</li>
<li><strong>Scope</strong>: Defines the limits of the search. Choose one
of the following:
<ul>
<li><strong>One Level</strong>: Retrieves matching entries by
searching the base DN and one level below the base DN.</li>
<li><strong>Subtree</strong>: Retrieves matching entries by searching
the base DN in addition to all levels below the base DN. This is
the least restrictive search.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Search filter</strong>: Enter the search filter to apply to
matching results that are within the specified scope of the
search.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Click OK to close the Directory Server Properties dialog box.</li>
</ol>
<p>The directory you added appears in the list of address books in the Address
Book window.</p>
<p>To delete a directory:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences. You see the
Preferences dialog box.</li>
<li>Under the Mail & Newsgroups category, select Addressing. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Mail & Newsgroups to expand
the list.)</li>
<li>Under Address Autocompletion on the right side of the dialog box, click
Edit Directories.</li>
<li>In the LDAP Directory Servers dialog box, select the directory that you
want to delete and click Delete.</li>
<li>Click OK, then click OK again to close the Preferences dialog box.</li>
</ol>
<p>For information on downloading or synchronizing a directory for offline use
so that you can search it or use it for address book autocompletion while
working offline, see
<a href="mailnews_offline.xhtml#downloading_directory_entries_for_offline_use">Downloading
Directory Entries for Offline Use</a>.</p>
<h3 id="directory_server_settings">Directory Server Settings</h3>
<p>If you are not already viewing the Directory Server Settings dialog box,
begin from the Mail window:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the Window menu, and choose Address Book.</li>
<li>In the list of address books, select a directory.</li>
<li>Click Properties.</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>General Tab</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Name</strong>: The name of the directory service (for example,
InfoSpace Directory).</li>
<li><strong>Host Name</strong>: The name of the host name server, such as
ldap.infospace.com.</li>
<li><strong>Base DN</strong>: The Base Distinguished Name. Codes entered here
restrict searching to a specific country or organization. For example, c=JP
restricts the search to Japan only. Base DN also specifies the organization
to search on within the directory (for instance, o=Netscape Communications
Corporation, c=US).</li>
<li><strong>Port Number</strong>: Enter the port number for the LDAP server.
The default is 389.</li>
<li><strong>Bind DN</strong>: The distinguished name that is used to
authenticate (log in) to the LDAP server. If left blank, the LDAP server
binds anonymously.</li>
<li><strong>Use secure connection (SSL)</strong>: Choose this setting if your
LDAP server supports secure (encrypted) connections. If you are unsure,
contact your system administrator.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Advanced Tab</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Don't return more than _ results</strong>: This setting lets
you limit the number of autocompletion matches returned by the directory
server. Specify the maximum number of email address matches to display for
autocompletion.</li>
<li><strong>Scope</strong>: Defines the limits of the search:
<ul>
<li><strong>One Level</strong>: Retrieves matching entries by searching
the base DN and one level below the base DN.</li>
<li><strong>Subtree</strong>: Retrieves matching entries by searching the
base DN in addition to all levels below the base DN. This is the least
restrictive search.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Search filter</strong>: Specifies the search filter to apply to
matching results that are within the specified scope of the search.</li>
</ul>
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