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15<H2><A NAME="s12">12. Address Book</A></H2>
16
17<P>
18<P>
19<P>
20<P>
21<P>
22<P>In the address book, accessible through Shift-Ctrl-A,
23the Addressbook button, or through the "Tools" menu, you
24store e-mail addresses of the people and places you want
25to write more often.
26<P>If the options have been compiled into Sylpheed, the
27address book can connect to a LDAP server for address
28lookup, and you can use the address book stored on your
29Palm PDA.
30<P>
31<H2><A NAME="ss12.1">12.1 Adding and Deleting Addresses</A>
32</H2>
33
34<P>Adding an address to the address book is quite easy too.
35Rightclick the folder or group you want to add the address
36to, select "new address" and fill in the dialog that comes
37up. You can also directly click the Add button in the
38address book window, and the dialog comes up. In this
39case the address is moved into the folder/group that is
40selected at the moment of adding.
41<P>
42<P>
43<P>
44<P>
45<P>In the "Basic data" tab, you can fill the first
46and last name and provide a nickname. The "Display name"
47will be used by the "Name" column of the address book
48window.
49<P>
50<P>
51<P>
52<P>
53<P>
54<P>In the "E-Mail address" tab, fill the address field
55and use the "Add" button to add the address to the list.
56An alias can also be assigned to this address and used
57when searching for an address.
58Several addresses can be assigned to the same person
59in your address book by repeating the sequence described
60above. The addresses can then be sorted by using the
61"Move up" and "Move down" buttons. The address on the top
62will be the first one listed in the address book main window.
63<P>
64<P>Deleting an address is equally simple. Find the address,
65click it once, and press the Delete button.
66<P>
67<H2><A NAME="ss12.2">12.2 Folders and Groups</A>
68</H2>
69
70<P>You can use groups and folders to organize your address
71book into categories, hierarchies and aliases.
72The folders are used to generate a hierarchical organization
73and contain the actual addresses, while the groups are
74used to group together addresses that lives in separate
75folders.
76<P>Sounds complicated, so let's see an example: consider
77your workmates, they are arnaud (arnaud@company.com),
78sandra (sandra@company.com), xavier (xavier@company.com)
79and the chief, helene (helene@company.com). You can
80create a folder named <CODE>myGroup</CODE>, create the entries
81for all your workmates in this folder. Now you can create one
82groupe named <CODE>jokes</CODE> that includes all but the boss
83to use when sending your daily jokes, another one named
84<CODE>team</CODE> that includes everybody for the usual group
85(serious) communication, and a third group named
86<CODE>reports</CODE> that includes the boss, and the one working
87with you on some projects for the weekly reports.
88<P>To generate this kind of addresses organization
89you only need to create the entries once, then when
90creating groups you can select among the existing entries
91to fill the groups.
92<P>The address book, like the mail folders, can be expanded
93into an entire tree of sections. For this you right-click
94on the folder where you want to add a new folder, and
95select "new folder". Then you can enter a descriptive
96name for the folder, click Ok, and your folder is created.
97<P>In this same way you can create a new group in a folder.
98Right-click on the folder, select "new group", enter a name
99for it, and that's it.
100<P>The group settings window pops up in order to fill the group
101with addresses. Use the two arrows to add to or remove from
102the group the selected address.
103Once the group contains the list of addresses you want it to
104contain, click the "OK" button to close the window.
105<P>
106<P>
107<P>
108<P>
109<H2><A NAME="ss12.3">12.3 Combination with Message Composition Window</A>
110</H2>
111
112<P>You can either enter the first letters of an address
113(or alias) in the <CODE>To:</CODE> or <CODE>Cc:</CODE> field
114of the composition window and press the TAB key to
115let Sylpheed do the completion or open the address book,
116select addresses from there and use the <CODE>To:</CODE>
117and <CODE>Cc:</CODE> buttons to copy the selected addresses
118into the corresponding fields of the composition window.
119<P>When using the completion mode, when one or more address
120matches the start you have entered, a dropdown list appears.
121Select the correct address from this list and press enter
122to complete the composition window's field.
123<P>In completion mode, the search is made on the E-mail
124address and on the alias. The other fields of the
125address book entry are not used (name, nickname,...).
126<P>When the address book is opened, if you select a group,
127using the <CODE>To:</CODE> or <CODE>Cc:</CODE> buttons will
128copy all the addresses of the selected group into the
129corresponding field of the composition window.
130<P>Using our previous example, you can select the <CODE>jokes</CODE>
131group when sending you morning jokes, and the <CODE>reports</CODE>
132one when sending your weekly reports...
133<P>
134<H2><A NAME="ss12.4">12.4 Using your PDA addressbook (with Jpilot)</A>
135</H2>
136
137<P>Sylpheed can optionally use your PDA addressbook. This option is
138available if you have compiled Sylpheed with the support of Jpilot.
139For more details regarding the compilation of Sylpheed with (or without)
140optional features, see the
141<A HREF="sylpheed-4.html#compile_sylpheed">compilation section</A>.
142<P>
143<P>Sylpheed uses the Jpilot side copy of your address book, so you do
144not need to put your PDA on the craddle to find an address (but do
145not forget to synchronize).
146<P>
147<P>In order to use your PDA's addressbook in Sylpheed, open the addressbook
148window, select the <I>JPilot</I> icon in the left tree view,
149use the <I>File -> New Jpilot</I> menu entry and choose a name for
150this addressbook.
151Define the name of the Jpilot addressbook file (usually in:
152<CODE>~/.jpilot/AddressDB.pdb</CODE>) and press <I>OK</I>.
153You can use one (or more) of the custom fields to store alternate
154Email addresses for the same person.
155<P>
156<P>Now you can browse your PDA addressbook. Sylpheed only has read
157access to this addressbook, so you can't modify your PDA addressbook
158from Sylpheed.
159<P>
160<H2><A NAME="ss12.5">12.5 LDAP server connection</A>
161</H2>
162
163<P>
164<P>### FIXME: write this part.
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