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Chapter 3. Contacts
The Contacts module allows you to manage contacts - personal, public, and shared by other
users - as well as the corresponding contact information: business and private addresses, phone
and fax numbers, etc. You can associate as many attachments as you wish with your contacts,
you can collect internal and external contacts into distribution lists and search for contacts using
various criteria.
Figure 3.1. The Contacts module
3.1. Contact types and access
Open-Xchange Server allows you to administer individual contacts as well as collections of contacts
via distribution lists. The latter is helpful, for example, if you would like to send some information
via E-Mail to all staff members of a department: instead of sending this E-Mail to many individual
contacts, you address your message only to the relevant distribution list.
This ensures that all of the appropriate contacts receive your communication. Since a distribution
list is simply a special type of contact, all of the following remarks apply equally to individual
contacts as well as distribution lists, unless specifically stated otherwise. You can find further information about the usage of distribution lists under Section 3.13, “Combining contacts in distribution lists” in this chapter.
3.1.1. Personal contacts
Your personal contacts comprise all of your business partners - customers, vendors, etc. - as well
as your private contacts such as friends and acquaintances.
When you open the Contacts module via the Contacts icon in the module toolbar, you will always
see your personal contacts (individual contacts as well as distribution lists) from the Contacts
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