Address Book

Press Ctrl+Shift+B to open the address book.

The address book lists everyone you have sent mail to or explicitly added, plus — if you turn on contact sync — the contacts stored in your Microsoft and Google accounts. You can search by name or address, edit contact details, and organize contacts into groups. An Account column shows where each contact came from: Local address book for the ones you added yourself, or the account name for synced ones.

Filtering by Account

When several accounts sync contacts into QuickMail, the list can get long. The Filter button, just to the right of the search box, narrows the list to one account at a time.

1. Press Tab once from the search box, or press Alt+F from anywhere on the Contacts tab, to reach the button. Its label reports what is showing now — for example, “Filter: All accounts.”
2. Press Enter or Alt+F to drop the menu. It opens on the filter currently in effect, which is marked as checked.
3. Press Up Arrow and Down Arrow to move through the choices: All accounts, Local address book, then one entry per account.
4. Press Enter to apply the choice. The list narrows and the result is announced — for example, “Work, 214 contacts.” Press Escape instead to close the menu and leave the filter alone.

The filter and the search box work together: with a filter applied, searching looks only inside that account. The filter stays in effect while the address book is open, including across a contact sync, and resets to All accounts the next time you open the window.

Filter Addresses by Account is also in the address book’s Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P).

Jumping to a Contact by Typing

With focus on the contact list, type the first letter of a contact’s name to jump straight to it. Type more letters quickly to match a longer beginning (“br” goes to Brenda rather than Bob), or press the same letter again to move to the next contact starting with that letter. Contacts stored without a name are matched on their address instead. The same typing shortcut works in the Groups list and the Group members list.

Finding Mail From or To a Contact

From the contact list, you can pull up everything a person sent you, or everything you addressed to them.

1. Select the contact and press Shift+F10 (or the Applications key) to open the context menu.
2. Choose Find mail from this contact or Find mail to this contact.
3. The address book closes and the message list fills with the matches, newest first. Focus moves to the message list and the count is announced — for example, “12 messages from Bob Baker.” The window title shows Mail from Bob Baker so you can tell the results apart from a folder.

Both actions are also in the address book’s Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) as Find Mail From Contact and Find Mail To Contact. Commands that live inside the address book are not listed in File → Settings → Keyboard Shortcuts, which covers the main window’s commands; reach them from the palette.

Press Escape with focus in the message list to close the results and go back to the folder you started from; the folder name and its message count are announced. A Close button at the top of the results does the same, and Close Contact Mail Results is in the Command Palette. Selecting any folder in the folder tree also leaves the results.

The search covers every account and folder QuickMail has cached — not just the folder you were in. Mail older than your sync range is not stored locally, so it is not included. Find mail to this contact matches the To line, so a message where the person was only in Cc does not appear.

Syncing Contacts from Your Accounts

QuickMail can fill the address book from the contacts already stored in your Microsoft, Google, and iCloud accounts, so the people your account knows are available for autocomplete when you address a message.

• Turn it on per account. When adding a Microsoft, Google, or iCloud account, check Sync contacts from this account in the Add Account dialog. For an account you already have, open File → Manage Accounts…, select the account, and check the same box — it takes effect immediately, with no separate Save step. Enabling sync asks your account for read-only access to your contacts (for Google this is part of the normal sign-in; for Microsoft it is granted right after sign-in; for iCloud it uses the app-specific password you already entered, so there is no extra prompt).
• Synced contacts are read-only. They come from the server into QuickMail only — QuickMail never writes changes back to your account. Synced people appear in the list but cannot be edited or deleted there. Contacts you added yourself stay fully editable, even if someone has the same address. Turning the switch off removes that account’s synced contacts from QuickMail.
• Refreshing. QuickMail refreshes synced contacts quietly in the background about twice a day. To pull the latest right away, use the Sync Now button in the address book, or the Sync Contacts Now command in the Command Palette.

Contact sync is one-directional and read-only in this release: no changes are written back. For Microsoft and Google it also pulls the people you’ve recently emailed; iCloud brings in your saved contacts (its CardDAV service has no separate “recent recipients” list).

Changing or Deleting a Synced Contact

Because sync only runs one way, the address book is not the place to change or remove a contact that came from an account. With a synced contact selected, the Edit and Delete buttons are unavailable, and the matching Command Palette entries do nothing. This is deliberate: a deletion made here could not be sent to your account, so the contact would simply reappear the next time QuickMail refreshed — the change would look like it worked and then quietly undo itself.

To change or remove a synced contact for good, edit it where it actually lives, then bring the change back:

1. Open the account’s own contacts — Google Contacts (contacts.google.com), Outlook / Microsoft 365 People, or iCloud Contacts — and make the change there.
2. Return to QuickMail’s address book and press the Sync Now button (or run Sync Contacts Now from the Command Palette).
3. The list is rebuilt from the account, so an edited contact shows its new details and a deleted one is gone.

Without step 2 the address book keeps the old copy until the next background refresh, which happens about twice a day.

“Other contacts” from Google. Google keeps two separate lists: the contacts you saved, and Other contacts — addresses Google collected automatically from people you have emailed. QuickMail pulls both, which is why the address book can hold far more people than you ever saved. Removing one of these is the same two-step job as above, but do it in the Other contacts section of Google Contacts specifically; deleting from your saved contacts does not touch it. Google also re-collects an address if you email that person again.

If you only want them out of QuickMail, and not out of the account, clear Sync contacts from this account for that account in File → Manage Accounts…. That drops every contact synced from it, leaving the ones you added yourself alone. Nothing on the account is changed.

Groups

Groups let you write to multiple people with a single address. Select a group in the address book and press Enter to expand it and see its members. To compose to a group, type the group name in the To or Cc field and select it from autocomplete.

Managing Groups

Open the address book and use the Groups pane to create, rename, and delete groups, and to add or remove members.

Group names must be unique, regardless of letter case (“Team” and “team” count as the same name). If you try to create or rename a group to a name that already exists, QuickMail tells you the name is already in use and leaves your text in place so you can choose a different one. Groups are never merged.