What is "Nickname" in the address book? The Safe-mail system uses the nickname in a contact card to uniquely identify
the contact and its email address. For example, if you enter "John" in
the NickName field of your account's "User Info", any outgoing email
from you will be identified as sent from: "John"
<accontname @ Safe-mail.net>. Let's say you save a contact card in your address book with the nickname
"mark" and email address "marktwain@domain.net". From now
on, any time that you will enter "mark" in a field that requires an
email address (To:, CC:, BCC:, etc.) - the outgoing message or action will be
sent to "marktwain@domain.net". Note: The nickname is restricted to a single word and cannot contain
blanks and characters, such as @ ! / \ : * ? < > ` | " % ^ # ~ ; [ ]
{ }
A nickname is a descriptive name added to or replacing the actual email of a
person. Nicknames are used to provide a familiar or shortened form of a full
email. Sometimes in email terminology, the nickname is a part of the actual
email address(i.e. it is possible to receive an email from:"mark"
<marktwin@newmail.net>, in which "mark" is the nickname).
Since a nickname is a unique identifier of an email address, it must be filled
in at the creation of a new contact card in your address book that contains an
email address. Consequently, using a nickname can substitute the typing of a full
email address in email message composition, file sharing or in any other part of
the system.
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In the fields To:, CC:, BCC:, etc., what is the difference between a nickname and an abbreviation?
Safe-mail's default domain is "Safe-mail.net". This means that instead
of sending an email message to "support@SAFe-mail.net", you can simply
write "support" in the "To:" field. Safe-mail will check if
there is a nickname "support" in your address book. If not, the system
will interpret it as "support@SAFe-mail.net . In case you have such a
nickname ("support"), the message will be sent to the email address,
which is identified by that nickname.
The data in your address book has the highest priority in the interpretation of
names. In case you want to send a mail to "mark@SAFe-mail.net" and you
already have a nickname "mark" for "marktawin@domain.net",
you must enter the full email address "mark@SAFe-mail.net". Otherwise
the message will be sent to "marktawin@domain.net".
How to create an email message using contacts from the address book? Alternatively,
The easiest way is to compose a message and simply write the relevant nicknames
in the To:, CC: and BCC: fields. The system will use the email addresses of each
nickname.
There is also the possibility to access the address book directly and select the
recipients using on of two methods: