Managing contacts

Add a contact

The address book is automatically created from the addresses that you have corresponded with in the past. If you don't want to add contacts automatically, open the Contacts menu, turn off Add contacts automatically, and save your changes.

You can also add an address manually, using any of the following methods:

  • In the address book interface. Click Add contact, fill in the fields in the contact editing window, and save changes.
  • On the contact card when reading messages. Open the message and left-click on the sender's name. In the window that opens, click Add to Contacts.

If the contact name is not specified clearly and the recipient replied to you, the address book will use the name that the recipient specified in their mail settings.

Change a contact

You can change contact information — name, email address, phone number, date of birth — using one of these methods:

  • In the address book interface. Choose a contact from the list and click Edit, enter new contact information, and save changes.
  • On the contact card when reading messages. Open the message and left-click on the sender's name. In the new window, click Edit, enter the new contact information, and save changes.

Delete contact

To remove a contact from the address book, click on their profile picture in the list and select Delete in the top menu.

Groups of contacts

Write an email to a group of contacts

To send messages to several contacts at the same time without entering their addresses, you can put contacts into groups and then you will only need to enter the group's name in the To field.

Adding a contact to a group

  1. Select the contacts you need.
  2. Click Add to group.
  3. Select the group you need from the list or create a new one.
Note. Contacts can be added to several groups at one time.

Removing contacts from groups

  1. Open the group you need from the list on the left side of the page.
  2. Select the contacts you want to remove from the group.
  3. Click Remove from group.
Attention. Contacts removed from groups will still remain in the address book. To remove a contact from the address book, click Delete contact.

Configuring groups

Any group can be renamed or deleted. To open the settings, hover over the group name in the list of groups on the left. Click the customize link that appears.

You can also set up contact groups in the More → Contacts menu.

Importing and exporting contacts

VCard format files are used to import and export contacts between Yandex Mail and other mail services and clients.

To export contacts from your Yandex Mail address book, go to Contacts, click More in the top menu, and select Export contacts to file. In the window that opens, click Save. All personal contacts from your address book will be saved to your computer as a vCard file.

To import contacts to your Yandex Mail address book, go to Contacts, click More in the top menu, and select Import contacts from file. Open the desired vCard file and click Save.

Exporting contacts from different email clients

Mozilla Thunderbird
  1. Click Address book.
  2. In the Address Book, open Tools → Export
  3. Enter a file name, select the vCard format, and choose a path to save the file to.
  4. Click Save. You can import the saved file to the address book in Yandex Mail or any other email client.
The Bat!
  1. Open Tools → Address Book.
  2. In the address book, open File → Export to → Business card (vCard v2.1).
  3. Enter a file name, select the Vcard electronic business card (VCF) format, and choose a path to save the file.
  4. Click Save. You can import the saved file to the address book in Yandex Mail or any other email client.

Synchronizing contacts with a mobile device

You can synchronize contacts with your smartphone's address book . Smartphone contacts appear in Phone contacts in Yandex Mail when you connect to the internet (the group is created automatically when you first sync your devices). To display Yandex Mail contacts on a mobile device, add them to this group.

Attention. Only contacts saved to a CardDAV account when created will be synchronized from the mobile device address book. Contacts saved to a smartphone's memory or another account won't be synced with Yandex Mail.

Contacts are synchronized via CardDAV protocol. CardDAV is an internet protocol for syncing address books with a mobile device. You can set up a CardDAV account using standard smartphone tools or a third-party app.

Select your mobile device's platform:

Searching for contacts

Use the integrated search, which supports direct and reverse transliteration of names and surnames, to quickly find a contact in your address book. For example, to search for “Bill the Lizard”, you can start typing the name using either the Latin “B” or the Cyrillic “Б”.

When composing a message, if you enter the first letters of a name, surname, or email addresses in the To field, you will see a list of matching contacts in pop-up messages. The contacts you recently sent messages to are listed first.

Contact card

To view additional information about a contact, left-click the sender's address when reading messages.

You can add a phone number, date of birth, or comment by clicking Edit in the contact's card.

From the contact card, you can also view all messages you received from this sender, create a rule for all similar messages, or send the address to the blacklist.