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    <desc>Autocompletion of names and email addresses entered in the mail composer.</desc>
    
    <link type="guide" xref="index#contacts"/>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#mail-composing"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="mail-composer-forward"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="mail-composer-reply"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="mail-composer-write-new-message"/>

    <revision pkgversion="2.32.1" version="0.1" date="2011-01-05" status="draft"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name its:translate="no">Andre Klapper</name>
      <email its:translate="no">ak-47@gmx.net</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="author">
      <name its:translate="no">Novell, Inc</name> <!-- Content partially from http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/2.32/usage-mail-getnsend-send.html.en#usage-mail-getnsend-send-to -->
    </credit>
    <license>
      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
    </license>

  </info>

<title>Autocompletion of mail recipients</title>

<p>You can enter the first three letters of names and email addresses in the recipients text field and Evolution will present you with a list of matches from your address books.</p>
<p>To enable autocompletion, go to <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Preferences</gui><gui>Contacts</gui><gui>Autocompletion</gui></guiseq> and choose the address books from the list that Evolution should look in for matches.</p>

<p>Select <gui>Always show address of the autocompleted contact</gui> to also show the email address along with the name. This can be helpful to distinguish if a contact has several email addresses.</p>

<p>Alternately, you can click the <gui>To:</gui>, <gui>Cc:</gui>, or <gui>Bcc:</gui> buttons to get a list of the email addresses in your contacts. Select addresses and click the arrow buttons to move them into the appropriate address columns.</p>

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