Managing Contacts in Webmail

The Contacts tab in Hover webmail is where you build and maintain your address book — adding new contacts, organizing them into groups, and importing or exporting your list. This article covers each of these tasks, whether you're managing contacts one at a time or in bulk.

How Contacts Are Organized

The Contacts tab is divided into three panes: groups, the contacts list, and contact details. Drag-and-drop is supported throughout, so you can move contacts quickly.

Before you begin

• A Hover webmail account you can sign in to: use your full email address, not your hover.com username.
• Former Vistaprint customers: sign in at mail.b.hostedemail.com instead of the standard Hover webmail address.

Adding a Contact

You can add a contact directly from the Contacts tab, or from an email you've received.

Adding a Contact from the Contacts Tab

1. Sign in to Hover webmail.
2. Click Contacts in the sidebar, then click Create in the right details pane.
3. Fill in the contact's information on the blank contact card and click Save.

Adding a Contact from an Email

1. Sign in to Hover webmail.
2. In your inbox, open an email from the contact you want to add.
3. In the email details pane, click the sender's email address in the header.
4. Select Add to address book. The contact is added automatically.

Selecting Multiple Contacts

The contact select tool lets you choose several contacts at once, so you can move them into a group, delete them, export them, or click Compose to email all of them together.

Note: The contact details pane only shows one contact's details at a time.

1. Sign in to Hover webmail.
2. Click Contacts in the sidebar, then click Select in the contact list pane and choose a selection option.
3. Use the checkbox beside each contact to select or deselect it.

Searching for Contacts

The basic search at the top of the contacts list searches by display name, email, first name, last name, or all fields at once.

1. Sign in to Hover webmail.
2. Click Contacts in the sidebar, choose a search criterion, type your search term, and press Enter.
3. To narrow your search further, click the arrow beside the search field to reveal more options, then click Search.

Using Groups

Groups let you build lists of frequently emailed contacts for quick access. Groups display alphabetically, and a contact can belong to more than one group at a time.

Creating a Group

1. Sign in to Hover webmail.
2. Click Contacts in the sidebar, then click the ... menu in the Groups pane and choose Add group.
3. Type a name for the group and click Save.

Adding Contacts to a Group

Drag-and-drop works here too, so you can move several contacts into a group at once.

Note: Dragging a contact from one group to another creates a copy in the new group — it doesn't remove the contact from the original group.

1. Sign in to Hover webmail.
2. Click Contacts in the sidebar, then click Select.
3. Select the contacts you want to add and drag them onto the group in the left Groups pane.
4. Alternatively, in the right details pane, click More, then Assign to group, and choose the group.

Removing Contacts from a Group

Note: You can't remove a contact from the main Contacts group.

1. Sign in to Hover webmail.
2. Click Contacts in the sidebar, then select the group you want to remove contacts from.
3. Click Select and choose the contacts to remove.
4. In the right details pane, click More, then Remove from group.

Renaming a Group

1. Sign in to Hover webmail.
2. Click Contacts in the sidebar, then select the group you want to rename.
3. Click the ... menu, then Rename group.
4. Enter the new name and click Save. The group reappears in the list in alphabetical order.

Deleting a Group

1. Sign in to Hover webmail.
2. Click Contacts in the sidebar, then select the group you want to delete.
3. Click the ... menu, then Delete group.
4. Click Delete to confirm.

Importing Contacts

You can import contacts from another mail application in vCard (.VCF) or comma-separated values (.CSV) format.

1. Sign in to Hover webmail.
2. Click Contacts in the sidebar, then Contacts again.
3. In the right details pane, click Import, then Browse to choose your file.
4. Choose a group for the new contacts from the Import group assignments drop-down. If you skip this, contacts import into the main Contacts group only. Click Import.
5. Toggle whether the first line of your file is a header row, then click Import.
6. Choose whether to replace your entire address book with this import, then click Import.
7. Once you see the confirmation, close the Import contacts window by clicking the X.

Warning: Choosing to replace your address book removes your existing contacts and replaces them entirely with the imported list.

Exporting Contacts

You can export your contacts to a vCard (.VCF) file. CSV export isn't supported.

1. Sign in to Hover webmail.
2. Click Contacts in the sidebar, then Contacts again.
3. In the left pane, click Export, then Export all.
4. The file downloads to your device as contacts.vcf.

Next steps

• Start emailing your contacts: head to Using the Webmail Mail Tab to compose a message to a contact or group.
• Keep your address book backed up: export your contacts periodically so you always have a copy.

Questions? Contact Hover Support.