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<h1>Contacts: your address book</h1>
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<li><a href="#add">Adding a contact</a></li>
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<li><a href="#remove">Removing a contact</a></li>
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<li><a href="#edit">Editing a contact</a></li>
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<li><a href="#group">Creating a group</a></li>
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<p>Contacts allow you to store names, email addresses, and other information in a contact list, which serves as an address book. You can quickly send mail to a contact by retreiving information from your contact list.</p>
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<h2><a name="add" id="add"></a>Adding a contact</h2>
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<p><strong>To add a contact</strong></p>
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<li>In the left pane, click Contacts. Your contact list appears in the right pane.</li>
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<li>On the menu bar, click New Contact.</li>
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<li>Fill in the contact information:</li>
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<p><strong>To add a contact from a message</strong></p>
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<li>Drag the contact's email address from the<strong> From</strong> field to the <strong>Contacts</strong> folder.
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<p><em>or</em></p></li>
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<li>To the right of the <strong>From</strong> field, click <strong>Add</strong>.</li>
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<p><strong>To add multiple contacts from a message</strong></p>
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<li>On the menu bar, click <strong>More Actions</strong>, and then click <strong>Extract</strong>. Alpine extracts everything in the message that is in the format of an email address and presents a list of contacts. You can confirm each contact.</li>
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<h2><a name="remove" id="remove"></a>Removing a contact</h2>
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<h2><a name="edit" id="edit"></a>Editing a contact</h2>
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<h2><a name="group" id="group"></a>Creating a group</h2>