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<info>
<link type="guide" xref="contacts-usage"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.1.5" version="0.3" date="2011-08-19" status="final"/>
<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">Barbara Tobias</name>
<email its:translate="no">barbtobias09@gmail.com</email>
</credit>
<include xmlns="https://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="legal.xml"/>
<desc>Automatically add senders of mail that you have received to your
contacts.</desc>
</info>
<title>Adding people automatically to my contacts</title>
<p>You can add people automatically to your contacts when you reply to
received email.</p>
<steps>
<item><p>Select <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Plugins</gui></guiseq>.</p></item>
<item><p>Enable <gui>Automatic Contacts</gui>.</p>
<note style="tip"><p>If a plugin is not available under <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Plugins</gui></guiseq>, then please ask in a support forum of your distribution. Your distribution might have decided to disable some plugins or to ship plugins in a separate package.</p></note>
</item>
<item><p>Go to <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Preferences</gui><gui>Contacts</gui>
<gui>Automatic Contacts</gui></guiseq>.</p></item>
<item><p>Enable <gui>Create address book entries when sending emails</gui> and select
an address book in the drop-down field below that will receive the new
contacts.</p></item>
</steps>
<p>From now on, contacts will be automatically created for senders of
received mail when you reply to that mail.</p>
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