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What does the 'Signatures' screen allow me to do?
You can add, edit and delete signatures from this screen. Signatures
you add here can be appended to the outgoing mails.
You can associate a signature with a personality in the 'Options' ->
'Personalities' screen. When you use a particular personality to send
mails from the 'From' dropdown in the 'Compose' screen, the signature
associated with that personality will be appended to the outgoing mail.
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What does the 'Folders' screen allow me to do?
The folder screen allows you to add, rename and delete folders. You
can also configure the default number of rows of messages to display
on the Mailbox screen when you go to a folder. You can also configure
whether to have message 'previews' like Microsoft Outlook for no
messages, all messages or only unread messages.
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What does the 'Addresses' screen allow me to do?
You can add/delete/edit addresses to be used when sending emails.
You can also define address groups so that you can easily send an
email to many different recipients easily.
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What does the 'Upload/Download addresses' screen allow me to do?
The 'Upload/Download Addresses' screen allows you to upload an existing address book
from a number of different programs and formats, or download your FastMail.FM address book to import into another program/system. Currently the following formats are
supported:
- Outlook Express CSV export
- Outlook CSV export
- Eudora CSV export
- LDIF (Thunderbird/NS7/NS6/NS4 export)
- vCard (Pine/OS X Mail export)
- Yahoo! CSV
- Generic CSV/Tab delim with header line
The upload is quite intelligent in that it will:
- Guess the upload format based on the file you supply
- Merge the uploaded addresses into your existing addressbook,
adding new addresses where not found, or replacing existing
address data where new data is found in the upload file
Outlook
You must export your Outlook contacts to CSV format to import them.
Use the following procedure to do that.
- Start Outlook
- Select the menu item File -> Import and Export...
- Select Export to a file and click Next
- Select Comma Separated Values (Windows) (**NOT** DOS) and click Next
- Select the Outlook folder your contacts are in and click Next
- Use the Browse button to select a location to save the file. Enter
something like AddrUpload.csv as the file name. Click Next and then Finish
- Login to your FastMail.FM account and go to the
address upload screen
- Click the Browse button to locate the file you exported above and
then click Upload. It should import all your contacts
After the upload, FastMail.FM will display a message showing addresses
successfully uploaded and/or any errors.
Outlook Express
- Start Outlook Express
- Select the menu item File -> Export -> Address book ...
- Select Text File (Comma Separated Values) and click Export
- Use the Browse button to select a location to save the file. Enter
something like AddrUpload.csv as the file name
- Make sure all the fields are ticked, then click Finish to complete the file export
- Login to your FastMail.FM account and go to the
address upload screen
- Click the Browse button to locate the file you exported above and
then click Upload. It should import all your contacts
After the upload, FastMail.FM will display a message showing addresses
successfully uploaded and/or any errors.
Thuderbird/Mozilla/Netscape
- Start Thuderbird/Mozilla/Netscape
- Select the menu item Tools -> Address Book
- Select the menu item Tools -> Export...
- Select a location to save the file. Enter something like
AddrUpload.ldif as the file name then click Save
- Login to your FastMail.FM account and go to the
address upload screen
- Click the Browse button to locate the file you exported above and
then click Upload. It should import all your contacts
After the upload, FastMail.FM will display a message showing addresses
successfully uploaded and/or any errors.
Other
Follow the appropriate menus to export the addressbook from your other
web-site/program. Then login to your FastMail.FM account
and go to the address upload screen. Click the Browse button to locate
the file you exported above and then click Upload. It should import all
your contacts.
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I want to upload an addressbook with groups. Do you support that?
Not at the moment sorry. Any group information will be lost in the
upload process. This is something we hope to fix at some stage.
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Are you going to support address book synchronisation via IMSP/ACAP/LDAP?
IMSP and ACAP are quite well suited to this job, but unfortunately they are
only supported by one client (Mulberry).
LDAP is a general directory services protocol supported by most clients.
However it is generally supported only read only, and authentication is
generally not supported by most clients (meaning that your address book
would be available to everyone).
Therefore we have plans to create some synchronisation software ourselves.
Currently there is no timeline on this however.
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How can I transfer my address book from Microsoft Hotmail to FastMail.FM easily?
The following answer works on Microsoft Windows.
- Set up Outlook Express with your Hotmail account.
- Click Start then Run. Type 'wab' and click the 'OK' button. The Windows Address Book should now load.
- Click 'Tools'->'Synchronize Address Book'. Your addresses are now in Outlook Express.
- Finally, follow these general instructions for exporting these addresses to FastMail.FM
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How do I add/sort addresses/folders/signatures?
See this FAQ entry for details.
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