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  <info>
    <desc>Automatically add senders of mail that you have received to your contacts.</desc>
    
    <link type="guide" xref="contacts-usage"/>

    <revision pkgversion="3.1.5" version="0.3" date="2011-08-19" status="final"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Andre Klapper</name>
      <email>ak-47@gmx.net</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Barbara Tobias</name>
      <email>barbtobias09@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>
    <license>
      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
    </license>

  </info>

<title>Adding people automatically to my contacts</title>


<p>You can add people automatically to your contacts when you reply to received email. Enable the plugin <gui>Automatic Contacts</gui> by going to <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Plugins</gui></guiseq>; click on "Automatic Contacts" so that it shows a check mark. Then go to <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Preferences</gui><gui>Contacts</gui><gui>Automatic Contacts</gui></guiseq> and enable the <gui>Create address book entries when sending emails</gui> option and select an address book in the drop-down field below that will receive the new contacts.</p>
<p>From now on, contacts will be automatically created for senders of received mail when you reply to that mail.</p>
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