# Collecting addresses

**The following options exist:**

- Automatically collect new email addresses when sending or reading emails by activating this function in the email settings.
- Manually adding email addresses to an address book

##### How to manually add an email address to an address book:

<div class="task" id="bkmrk-select-an-email.-cli"><div class="procedure">1. Select an email.
2. Click on the sender's or a recipient's name in the detail view.
    
    Click on <span class="guibutton">**Add to address book**</span> in the popup.

</div></div><p class="callout info">Note: This function is only available for new contacts.</p>