![]() We'll focus on two here, the add file and add web page options. I'll start with the message window created above, and send an image to the articles address:Īs you can see, I've clicked on the Attach button menu icon and gotten a couple of options. Thunderbird and attachments (files and web pages) Now let's proceed to writing emails and attachments. Articles about more advanced use, such as mailing lists and server-based address books will be covered in a later article. OK, so now we've covered a bit of the address book, using it with email messages. Creating and sending messages is now easier, because the address book will provide the contact info you've added earlier when you start typing the name. If you now start typing the contact name for a newly created contact, it should look like this:Īs you can see, the contact info (name and email address) now show up for the added contact, the recipient name and address gets "auto-completed". Close the address book and you're now back to the message composition window. Check this option if you trust the contact, it is most times OK to check this box when you're adding a contact. Finally to the bottom right, there is the option "Allow remote content". If you're sending emails to a fairly technical person, chances are they will prefer Plain Text. Now, for this example, we at prefer to receive messages as HTML, because you can embed images etc. Towards the bottom of the window there is "Prefers to receive messages formatted as" with the options Unknown, HTML and Plain Text. So OK, add information as shown above, or add some person or organization you want. It is also possible to add chat names, different nicknames used on Facebook, but we'll get back to that in a later article. Here you can enter information such as name, nickname, email address and phone numbers. I've highlighted the "New contact" button press it and the following window will appear. :) Press "Ctrl-Shift-B" and the following window will appear: ![]() But before that, let's make that recipient a contact in our address book. ![]() What we want to do first, is add a recipient for the message, the email address we're sending to. OK, so start by going to the main Thunderbird window and press Write. In this article we will look at using the Address Book, as well as attaching files (and even web pages!) to emails.
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