GNUMail.app User's Guideby Martin Brecher <martin@mb-itconsulting.com>
Using the Address Book [top of page]Overview [top of page]The first thing you might want to set up now may be your email contacts. As most mail clients GNUMail.app includes an Address Book which quite simple and thus easy to use but fully functional. It allows you to sort your contacts into different groups to keep order. The address book window mainly consists of two areas. On the top you can see a two paned browser which on the left side lists all groups. Selecting a group in this lists will display the contents of the selected group in the right column. The second area features several buttons and a text field. For example this area lets you add, modify, or remove addresses or groups. Adding addresses [top of page]Adding addresses to the database is really easy:
![]() You can also directly add addresses that are contained in a message's headers (e.g. the sender of the message) to the General Group using the Message menu. This function is described in the Reading Mail chapter. Adding groups [top of page]Adding new groups is done the same way:
Deleting addresses/groups [top of page]Removing addresses or groups is as simple as adding new ones... well, it's even easier: Just select the address or the group you want remove from the list and click the "Delete Address" resp. the "Delete Group" button. Modifying addresses/groups [top of page]You can easily modify entries (either groups or contacts) by selecting them in the browser; after editing them in the text field just click the "Modify" button. Moving addresses between groups [top of page]Selecting a contact in the browser and then selecting a target group in the 'Move to:' popup menu will move the address to the selected group. The 'to', 'cc' and 'bcc' buttons [top of page]The three buttons can be used when composing a message. Pressing the 'to' button will add the selected address as receiver of the message, the 'cc' and 'bcc' button will add the selected address as a receiver of a carbon copy or a blind carbon copy respectively. Using the Import function [top of page]As GNUMail.app is the GNUstep counter part to Mail.app on the NeXTstep/OPENSTEP systems it allows you to import your old
Mail.app address book. Just click the "Import" button to bring up an Open Dialog in which you can select the old address book file
to import. [top of page] |