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Opera Mail Tutorial

Opera Contacts

Contacts allow you to keep track of all sorts of information about people you communicate with, group messages you've received from certain addresses or groups of addresses together, and easily send messages to groups of addresses.

Contacts panel

Contacts are easily manipulated through the "Contacts" panel, which will appear after you create a mail, chat, or newsgroup account. Double-clicking a contact will open a view containing all your correspondence with that contact.

Manage contacts dialog

The "Manage contacts" page offers a larger interface to organizing your contacts. You can access it from Tools > Contacts. The page's top field is a "Quick find" input to help you quickly locate specific contacts.

Contact folders

Contact folders are a convenient way of grouping contacts together. Selecting "Compose" while having a contact folder selected in the Contacts panel will open a message composition window addressed to all the contacts in the folder.

Creating contacts

To create a blank contact, use the "Add" button or "New contact" context menu item in the Contacts panel or the "New" button in the "Manage contacts" dialog. If you have received a message from an address that you would like to add as a contact, select the message and press A, or click the "Add contact" button on the e-mail toolbar. If you are using contact folders, you can use the drop-down next to the "Add contact" button to add a contact to a specific folder by selecting "Add contact here" once you have chosen the correct folder.

Contact properties

In the contact properties dialog, you'll be able to add, remove, and change information about contacts. You can leave any field blank, but leaving "Name" and"E-mail address" blank will limit the usefulness of contacts.

General

Picture

You can associate an image with a contact that will be displayed here in contact properties and at the top of contact views. The image is specified on the "Images" tab. Note that there has been problems uploading photos from localhost. The reason for this is that the photos need to be cached to be able to show. You can however use photos from the Web by specifying a URL.

Primary e-mail address

Use the "E-mail address" field for your contact's primary e-mail address. You will be able to add additional e-mail addresses on the "Notes" tab.

Notes

Additional e-mail addresses

Put additional e-mail addresses for the contact in the "Additional e-mail addresses" field. Addresses should be separated by commas, like this: "username1@example.com, username2@example.com, username3@example.com". E-mail messages sent to and received from the addresses listed here will appear in the view associated with this contact together with messages from and to the contact's primary address.

Notes

Add any additional information you would like to keep stored about the contact in the "Notes" field.

Chat

Add your contact's IRC nickname in this tab to let Opera keep track of the contact's on-line status. Contacts with registered nicknames will show up in your chat panel when you and your contact are logged on to the same network. For more information on using chat in Opera, see the Opera tutorial.

Images

Picture URL

Use the "Picture URL" field to enter the Web page address of an image that you would like to associate with your contact. The maximum image size is 150 x 150 pixels.

Icon

The icon displayed in the message list window in front of messages received from your contact can be set by selecting an icon in the list. Opera defaults to using the first contact icon in the list.

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