Qualcomm 4.3 Finish Address Book Entry Command, Using Central Address Book Files on a Server

Eudora User Manual Finish Address Book Entry Command

Finish Address Book Entry Command

By using the Finish Address Book Entry command, you can enter a unique portion of a nickname in the To:, Cc:, or Bcc: fields of a message, then from the Edit menu, choose Finish Address Book Entry, and the nickname will be completed for you. You must enter the characters in the nickname that make it unique, or Eudora will not know which nick- name to use. For example, if you have two nicknames, joan and john, you would have to enter “joa” or “joh” for Eudora to complete them. Also, see “Using Automatic Name Completion (Sponsored and Paid modes only)” on page 26. Click the page number to display the topic.

To insert the real addresses for the entry, instead of the nickname, do the following.

■Hold down the Shift key and from the Edit menu, choose Finish Address Book Entry. To set this to happen all the time, select the “Automatically expand nicknames” option in the Miscellaneous options window. See “Miscellaneous” on page 231. Click the page number to display the topic.

Using Central Address Book Files on a Server

You can set up central Address Book files on a server and configure Eudora clients so that they refer to the central files.

Important. You should be an expert user or an administrator to perform this function.

First, be sure the files are plain text, have a .txt extension, and are formatted as follows: one nickname on each line with the real addresses separated by commas, and one line for notes and info with the Notes text following the Info data. For example:

alias Wow joe@wow.com,lisa@wow.com,chris@wow.com

note Wow <fax: 222.2223><phone: 222.2222><address:1234 Street> <name:Wow Inc.>My favorite company

Then, for each client application, add an “ExtraNicknameDirs” entry to the [Settings] section of the Eudora.ini file. This entry should be followed by the list of directories that contain Address Book files, separated by semicolons (;). Any Address Book files located in those directories are added to the Address Book. You will need to exit and re-open Eudora to see the new entries.

Using Address Book Files Not Created by Eudora

To use an Address Book file that was not created in Eudora, put the file in the Nickname directory located in your Eudora folder, and be sure the format is as shown in the previous section “Using Central Address Book Files on a Server.” You will need to exit and reopen Eudora to see your new entries in the Address Book.

Note. You can migrate your address book from Netscape Messenger, Outlook Express, and Outlook ‘98 to Eudora. See “Importing Settings to Create a New Account” on page 80. Click the page number to display the topic.

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