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159. Add New Contacts

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.

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.