How do I save a contacts address from Mail

Hello Trevor,

Contacts are stored in the People app. If you add contacts to People or sync contacts with your Microsoft or other accounts you will be able to select the contacts when composing a new message in the Mail app.

Mark 

No this does not answer my issue.  What I am trying to do is find out whether when you get an email from a new contact if there is anyway of storing their address into the People App from within Mail.  There does not seem to be anyway of doing it.  I assume the only way is to go to the original email client and save it to address book there and then re sync

Thanks

Trevor

Correct, the people app "pulls" directly from your other communication apps. So, whatever you change in those other communication apps, synch the new information and people will pull the contact and updates.

Eddie b

You are correct, currently the Mail App has no method to add a contact!

I suggest you download the Windows Live 2012 suite as this includes a 'normal' email client that will allow this from http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-live/essentials-other-programs.

rblack,

Thank you.   This answers the question that I came to this forum for.

I am a new user of windows 8, and coming here I've learned that the email app that's provided with Windows 8 seems to be a really limited sort of application.   Very disappointing after getting used to the functionality of the old outlook program.   

Seems that the answer to this is to delete the current email app and download "Live Mail".

Why Microsoft doesn't provide one email app that's fully functional and works to do simple things like saving new people to contacts is beyond me.   I thought that was the idea here, going forward, was to create software that's more integrated and simpler to use.   Instead this is more cumbersome out of the box.  

(The other problem I was having that you 'solved' was simply finding this person's email address to begin with.   Their incoming email displays their name, fine and dandy, but what is their email address?  Apparently you have to do your little 'workaround' to discover it).

- CN

Correct, the people app "pulls" directly from your other communication apps. So, whatever you change in those other communication apps, synch the new information and people will pull the contact and updates.

Eddie b

This still does not help me.  HOW do you save a contacts address and create the new contact.