Transfer addresses to Earthlink's online address book

Jul 04, '03 12:42:00PM

Contributed by: Anonymous

Earthlink started their new spamblocker program which blocks spam from addresses that are not in your online address book. Blocked recipients then receive an automated response giving instructions on how to ask for permission to be unblocked by the user. The thing is, I don't store my addresses online. All of my addresses are on my computer in the Address Book. There is no way to import the addresses through Earthlink either. So here is how I imported all my addresses from Address Book to Earthlink's online Address Book using Safari.

Note: Make sure you have autofill turned on under Safari Preferences.

  1. Navigate and sign onto your Earthlink online webmail using Safari.
  2. Select Earthlink's "address Book"
  3. Select "Add Contact." This will open a new window. Open as many windows at once that you see necessary. This makes adding contacts faster.
  4. Open the Mac OS X Address Book application.
  5. Select one address from the Address Book that you would like to import.
  6. Select "Card" from the menubar and then select "This is My Card" from the drop down menu.
  7. Go back to Safari's window (which contains the form to add the new contact) and then press Shift-Command-A (selecting Edit and then Autofill form will work as well). The autofill will then complete the form with all the information from that contact in your OS X Address Book.
  8. Make any changes necessary to form.
  9. Go back to your "Address Book" and repeat - starting at step five.
Note: I noticed that if you make any changes to the form after selecting Shift-Command-A, then the next time you add a contact, your last modifications may still show up. To fix this, go to Safari's autofill preferences. Click the edit button next to "Other Forms." Select and remove "earthlink.com" from the list. You may try unchecking "other forms" to see if it clears this problem, but I didn't try that when importing my contacts.

This allowed me to add my addresses to Earthlink's online webmail in a matter of minutes instead of the hours it would have taken by filling out each form manually. I was unable to get this to work with Yahoo.com

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