Add an email sender to your contacts in Windows Mail

Whenever you purchase a new computer that comes with Windows Vista, Windows Mail will come with an empty address book. While you can manually add contact after contact, this approach is tedious and this can actually be done in a much easier way: Windows Mail comes with a feature that allows you to add a new contact based on an email you receive - this is probably the fastest way to create a contact the new Windows address book. In this tutorial, we will explain how you add contacts from email senders into your Windows Mail address book, where to find these contacts, and how to delete a contact that was added this way.

Create a Windows contact from an email you received in Windows Mail

This is how you add as contact someone who sent to an email:

• When you are inside Windows Mail, find an email whose sender you would like to add as a contact - we will use it as example (even if this is not a person you would like to add to your address book, we'll show you in a bit how to delete a contact).
• There are two ways in which Windows Mail lets you add contacts from emails you receive: which way you use is up to you, and makes absolutely no difference.
• Make sure that the email in question is currently selected.
• First way: click on the Tools menu, and choose "Add Sender to Contacts".
• Windows Mail will silently add that person as a contact in your address book.
• Select another email, so that we can show you the second way in which you can create a new contact based on an email sender.
• When that other email is selected, right click on it, and choose "Add Sender to Contacts" from the context menu that appears.
• Unless that particular contact is already in your address book, Windows Mail will create a new contact based on this email sender's information, in silence (in other words, no visual feedback that the new contact has been created).
  
  If the contact was already in your address book, Windows Mail will give you an error message that reads "This is already in your contacts" - in which case, just clicking the OK button of the information dialog will dismiss it (no duplicate contact created).
• To view your address book and the contacts you have already added from Windows Mail, click on the Tools menu and choose " Windows Contacts". This will open the Windows address book, with a full listing of all the contacts you currently have, whether they were added from Windows Mail, or manually created earlier on.
• To delete a contact from your Windows address book ("Windows Contacts"), all you need to do is locate it, right click on it, and choose "Delete" from the menu.

And this is how easily you can create contacts from email senders in Windows Mail!

Tip: To add multiple people as contacts at the same time, just double-click on the email message to open it in its own window; then, click on the "Tools" menu. Choose the "Add to Contacts" submenu, and click on "Everyone on To List" - in other words, Windows Mail will create new contacts for each of the recipients besides yourself!