# Contacts: your address book

- Adding a contact
- Removing a contact
- Editing a contact
- Creating a group

Contacts allow you to store names, email addresses, and other information in a contact list, which serves as an address book. You can quickly send mail to a contact by retreiving information from your contact list.

## Adding a contact

To add a contact

1. In the left pane, click Contacts. Your contact list appears in the right pane.
2. On the menu bar, click New Contact.
3. Fill in the contact information:
4. Nickname
5. Display Name
6. Email
7. Notes
8. Fcc folder
9. Click Add.

To add a contact from a message

- Drag the contact's email address from the From field to the Contacts folder.

  or

- To the right of the From field, click Add.

To add multiple contacts from a message

- On the menu bar, click More Actions, and then click Extract. Alpine extracts everything in the message that is in the format of an email address and presents a list of contacts. You can confirm each contact.

## Removing a contact

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## Editing a contact

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## Creating a group

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