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Adding a contact to your address book in Thunderbird

Thunderbird includes an address book you can use to store information about people you know. Follow these instructions to add a new contact to your address book in Thunderbird.

To add a contact to your address book in Thunderbird, follow the directions below.
  1. Open Thunderbird.
  2. Click Tools > Address Book.
  3. When your address book opens, you may notice it already has email addresses in it. Thunderbird adds email addresses to your address book as you compose and send new email messages. If you'd prefer to disable that behavior, refer to 1030: How can I prevent Thunderbird 1.5 from automatically adding email addresses to my address book?.
  4. To add a new entry to your address book, click New Card at the top of the window on the left.
  5. Type a first name and last name. The Display Name field is automatically filled out for you.
  6. In the Email field, type the recipient's email address.
  7. All other fields are optional. You may click OK at this point. If you prefer, you may fill out any and all other fields. (Fig. 1)
Here are some tips:
  • When you compose a new email message, Thunderbird will automatically suggest names or email addresses from your address book when you begin typing in the To: field.
  • When you compose a new email message, click the Contacts button to display a list of your contacts on the left side of the window. Double-click on a contact to add it to the recipients for your email.

Article Information

  • Article ID: 1019
  • Last Review: Nov 9, 2006
  • Type: Instructions

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