Adding contacts to address book

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Levon Spradlin

I inherited an older computer with a few years of information on it. I have
imported everything from Apple Mail without trouble, but have a question. Is
there a way to add contacts automatically from emails rather than entering
them from emails. I would rather not go though all of my archived mail just
to add contacts.

Thanks,
Levon
 
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Paul Berkowitz

I inherited an older computer with a few years of information on it. I have
imported everything from Apple Mail without trouble, but have a question. Is
there a way to add contacts automatically from emails rather than entering
them from emails. I would rather not go though all of my archived mail just to
add contacts.
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If you had asked first, yes. Even now, it's quite easy:

1. Go to Tools/Rules/POP - assuming your messages are in local folders "On
My Computer". (If an IMAP account, you would not have had to import
anything, so I assume these are local messages.)
2. Click New. Name the rule "Add to Address Book".
3. IF: change <All messages> to <From> <Is not in address book> (to avoid
duplicates).
4. Action: change the second action (<Set category>) to <Add sender to
address book>
5. Uncheck the Enabled box. (I assume you don't want this rule running on
ALL future messages, including spam that escapes the Junk filter. If I'm
wrong, keep the box Enabled.)
6. Go to the local Inbox, select one message, press cmd-A to Select All.
7. Go Message menu/Apply Rule/Add to Address Book. Let it run.
8. Repeat in any other folders where you want this done.


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lisa

If you had asked first, yes. Even now, it's quite easy:

1. Go to Tools/Rules/POP - assuming your messages are in local folders "On
My Computer". (If an IMAP account, you would not have had to import
anything, so I assume these are local messages.)
2. Click New. Name the rule "Add to Address Book".
3. IF: change <All messages> to <From> <Is not in address book> (to avoid
duplicates).
4. Action: change the second action (<Set category>) to <Add sender to
address book>
5. Uncheck the Enabled box. (I assume you don't want this rule running on
ALL future messages, including spam that escapes the Junk filter. If I'm
wrong, keep the box Enabled.)
6. Go to the local Inbox, select one message, press cmd-A to Select All.
7. Go Message menu/Apply Rule/Add to Address Book. Let it run.
8. Repeat in any other folders where you want this done.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

Please "Reply To Newsgroup" to reply to this message. Emails will be
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PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using -
**2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions
otherwise.
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Hi Paul,

I'm very new2mac, but it seems you are the person to ask such
questions of. Is it possible to expand on the above rule to add only
senders you reply to in the address book? This would perhaps allow you
to enable the rule.

Regards
Paul G
 
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