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Address Book

The address book is a great function that lets you store your e-mail addresses.

The address book link is in the SquirrelMail main menu.

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Add to personal address book

You add new addresses by filling in the fields in the Add to Personal address book section.

Fill in every field so that you have a good record of who the e-mail address belongs to.

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Once you have added the first entry, a list will appear above the Add to Personal address book section with your addresses.

Nickname - Put a familiar name here to help jog your memory. Put anything in this field that will help you recall who this address belongs to.

E-mail Address - This must be the person°s fully qualified e-mail address.

Guessing the e-mail address here just won°t work!

There are three parts to every e-mail address.

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First is the recipient°s identifier, such as ´pflintstone°. This is often based on the recipient°s name, but it doesn°t have to be.
Next is the domain name section, which could take the form ´latis° or ´compsm° or ´optus°.
Last comes the top-level domain, which could be one of many things like com, org, net, com.au, org.uk or net.au.
The top level domain usually tells you what sort of account it is
(com = commercial, gov = government department, org = non profit organisation and so on.
Some top-level domains also have country identifiers. Eg, au = Australia, uk = United Kingdom, jp = Japan).

So if we put all these different parts together it will be in the form of pebbles.flintstone@latis.net.au. If this is not correct you will either get your mail returned without being delivered or it will get sent to the wrong person!

First name and Last name - The first and last name of the person to whom the e-mail address belongs to.

Info - This is another field where you can put something to remind you about who this person is. This is made to be longer than the nickname. For example, if you are entering the e-mail address of someone you met on your holiday, you could enter something like ´Met at Uluru on May Day long weekend° to remind yourself who this address belongs to.

Edit or Delete - These two buttons allow you to select a single address and then change any of the above fields or delete the entry entirely. You are only allowed to select one entry at a time for the edit button.