Because people often have multiple email accounts from different providers, Enterprise Email makes it easy for users to securely transfer contacts to and from other online address books.

Importing/Exporting Contacts

To initiate the importing or exporting of contacts, click the Actions button at the top of your list of contacts. From the dropdown, you’ll see the following:

• Add to Outlook – This is used for connecting your contact list to an installation of Microsoft Outlook. For more information, see Outlook Integration.
• Import – Allows you to import your contacts from an external email client, a separate email service like Gmail, or from another Enterprise Email account.
• Export All VCARD – Exports all of your contacts in the standard vCard format for importing into an email client, separate service or to another Enterprise Email account.
• Export All CSV – Exports all of your contacts in a “comma separated values” format for importing into an email client, separate service or to another Enterprise Email account. CSV files can also be opened using virtually any spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel.

Importing Contacts to SmarterMail

Enterprise Email supports importing contacts from two different types of files: vCards (.vcf) and comma-separated text files (.csv). Enterprise Email also supports importing from a .zip file containing any combination of these file formats. Regardless of the file type imported, each contact MUST have a Display Name in order for SmarterMail to accept the importing of the contact. Other information can be added at a later date.

Follow these steps to import contacts:

1. Log in to your Enterprise Email account.
2. Click on the Contacts icon.
3. Click the Actions (…) button.
4. From the drop down menu, select Import.
5. The Import Contacts modal will load. Here, you can select which Contacts folder to import your new contacts to, such as the default Contacts folder or any new folders you’ve created.
6. Next, you can either drag-and-drop a CSV or VCF file into the “add files” area, or you can click on the “add files” box to open a desktop window so you can select the file you want to import.
7. Once the you’ve added the file(s), click the Import button.
8. If any conflicts occur, you will be asked to resolve them by performing one of the actions below:
   • Add Contact – This option adds a completely new contact record with the information in the vCard.
   • Replace – This option replaces the contact in the box with the new one being uploaded. To examine the properties of the close match contacts, however your mouse over the magnifying glass icon in the list at the bottom of the page.
   • Skip – This option skips this contact and omits the uploaded contact information.
9. Once all conflicts are resolved, the process is complete.

Exporting Contacts from Enterprise Email

Contacts can be exported individually in vCard or CSV format. These files can then be imported into Microsoft Outlook or other email clients that accept these file types, or into another Enterprise Email account.

To export a single contact to a CSV file in Card View:

1. First, log in to your Enterprise Email account.
2. Next, find the specific contact in your list, either by scrolling through your contacts or using the Search bar.
3. Once you find it, in the top right corner of the contact’s card you’ll see a down arrow or “caret”. Click on that.
4. From the dropdown menu, select Export to CSV.
5. A standard Save window will appear that allows you to rename the file, choose where you want the file saved, etc.

To export ALL contacts to CSV:

1. Click the Contacts icon.
2. Click the Select button, then click on it again as it’s now the Selected (0) button. 
3. From the dropdown menu, choose Select All.
4. Now, the Select button is the Selected (x) button, where (x) is the total number of contacts that were selected. Click on it again.
5. From the dropdown menu, select Export to CSV.
6. Again, a standard Save window will appear that allows you to rename the file, choose where you want the file saved, etc.