<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" type="topic" id="contacts-autocompletion"> <info> <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> <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/> <desc>Autocompletion of names and email addresses entered in the mail composer.</desc> </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 <app>Evolution</app> 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 <app>Evolution</app> 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> </page>