Managing contacts

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.

If you're a part of a company, contacts from your emails are automatically grouped under Personal contacts.

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

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

You can change contact information — name, email address, phone number, and date of birth — using one of the following 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 address. In the new window, click Edit, enter the new contact information, and save changes.

To delete a contact from your address book, select it and click Delete in the upper menu above the contact list.

vCard format files are used to import and export contacts between the Yandex.Mail address book and other mail services and clients.

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

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

Contacts are synchronized via CardDAV protocol. CardDAV is an Internet protocol for synchronizing address books with a mobile device. A CardDAV account can be configured with standard smartphone tools or via a third-party application.

Select your mobile device's platform:

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 your Russian friend “Ivan Petrov”, you can start typing his name using the Latin “I” or the Cyrillic “И”.

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 recipients of mail you recently sent will be listed first.

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 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.