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Overview

SmarterMail allows you to keep not only the email addresses of all of your important contacts, but all of their other information as well. All contact information, like all features of SmarterMail, is accessible through the web interface from anywhere on the internet. Some features of Contacts in SmarterMail include:

Contact lists can be imported to, and exported from, SmarterMail in multiple formats.
Quick-add contacts to emails.
Easy searching of contacts.
Integration with Outlook.

To get started, click on the My Contacts link under the Contacts sidebar item.

Adding a Contact

Select New Contact from Contacts in the left sidebar and enter information about the contact you wish to add. When you are done entering data, click on the Save button to save the contact.

You may also add a new contact by clicking on the Add Contact button in the My Contacts page or any shared contact list.

For ease of use, the contact page is separated into tabs that group related information. This information is outlined below.

Personal Info

Display As
Full Name
Note: Use the advanced link to allow entry of individual name parts.
Other Email Address
Instant Messenger
Home Page
Date of Birth
Additional Info

Contact Info

Phone Numbers
Fax Numbers
Address Information

Company Info

Name
Job Title
Department
Office
Address Information
Website

My Contacts

The My Contacts page lists all of your contacts and lets you perform many actions, like searching or composing new email. View your contacts by clicking on My Contacts under the Contacts tree in the sidebar.

Adding a Contact - Click on the Add Contact button to add a new contact.

Editing a Contact - Click on the name of a contact to edit it.

Deleting a Contact - To delete a contact, click on the delete link next to it, or check the contacts you want to delete and choose Delete Selected Contacts.

Searching Contacts - Click on the Search button to begin searching for contacts. A second bar will appear that will allow you to search.

Sending an Email to a Contact - Click on the new message link next to a contact to send them an email, or choose multiple users and choose New Message to Selected Contacts from the Actions menu.

Integrating with Outlook - You can use SmarterMail as a connector to Outlook so that your contacts in SmarterMail appear in Outlook and are automatically synchronized.

Global Address List

The Global Address List, sometimes referred to as "GAL", is a dynamic list containing all users on your domain.

Contact information for the Global Address List is pulled from individual profiles of users. To update your listing, go to the Settings menu and choose My Profile.

Note: All information you enter into your profile can be seen by all other members of your domain.

The Global Address List functions in a way almost identically to My Contacts. For information about using the page, see the help topic Adding a Contact.

Exporting Contacts

Contacts can be exported in an easy fashion in SmarterMail. When viewing a contact list like My Contacts or the Global Address List, click on the Actions menu and choose to export all contacts, or just the selected ones.

Contacts are downloaded as a zip file containing vCard files. These files can be imported into Outlook or back into another SmarterMail account using Import Contacts.

To import contacts into Outlook, just drag one or more vCard files into your contact list in Outlook and confirm each one by clicking on Save and Close for each one.

Importing Contacts

SmarterMail supports importing contacts from two different types of files: vCards (VCF) and comma-separated text files (CSV). SmarterMail also supports importing from a .zip file containing any combination of these files.

Importing vCard or zipped vCard files

Go to My Contacts.
Click on the Actions menu and choose Import Contacts.
Link to the file you wish to upload and click on OK.
If any conflicts occur, you will be asked to resolve them by performing one of the actions below:
- Add as a New Contact - As it states, this option adds a completely new contact record with the information in the vCard.
- Replace Existing Contact - Replaces the contact in the box with the new one being uploaded. To examine the properties of the close match contacts, hover your mouse over the magnifying glass icon in the list at the bottom of the page.
- Skip this Contact - Jumps over this contact and does not perform an action.
Once all conflicts are resolved, the process is complete.

Importing CSV or zipped CSV files

Go to My Contacts.
Click on the Actions menu and choose Import Contacts.
Link to the file you wish to upload and click on OK.
Map the contact fields from your CSV to SmarterMail fields by choosing them from the dropdown boxes.
If any conflicts occur, you will be asked to resolve them by performing one of the actions below:
- Add as a New Contact - As it states, this option adds a completely new contact record with the information in the vCard.
- Replace Existing Contact - Replaces the contact in the box with the new one being uploaded. To examine the properties of the close match contacts, hover your mouse over the magnifying glass icon in the list at the bottom of the page.
- Skip this Contact - Jumps over this contact and does not perform an action.
Once all conflicts are resolved, the process is complete.

Integration with Outlook

Calendars and contact lists can be loaded into Outlook and displayed side-by-side with your existing Outlook calendars and contacts. This allows you to see your current appointments and contacts from SmarterMail right in Outlook.

To enable the connection, you must first have Outlook installed and available to your user account.

In SmarterMail, navigate to the calendar or contact list you wish to connect.
Click on the Add to Outlook button.
A popup window will appear with additional instructions. Click OK to initiate the connector.
A security popup will appear from Outlook, explaining that an external source wants to attach to Outlook. Click on Yes to allow the connector to attach.
The resource is now available in Outlook.

Note: If you change the password on your email account, the connections will be broken and will have to be re-established.

SmarterMail Contacts information