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Managing Contacts

Most contact management in Adium occurs directly on the contact list or via menu items in the Contacts menu.

Adding a Contact

  1. Select Add Contact from the Contact menu to add a contact. You will need to select a service, destination group, and enter the user name of the contact.
  • To add a contact on a particular service you must have a connected account on that service. For more information, see Creating Accounts.

Adding a Contact Group

If you just signed up for your instant messaging account, you will most likely need to create a contact group before making new contacts.

  1. Select Add Group from the Contact menu to add a new contact group.

Removing a Contact

  1. Select the contact in your Contact List.
  2. Either press Cmd-Delete, or choose Remove Contact from the Contact menu.

Moving Contacts and Groups

To move a contact to a new group or rearrange groups, simply drag them. If you have a "borderless" contact list, you'll need to hold down command in order to initiate the drag.

  • Note: You can not manually reorder contacts if:
    1. You are sorting alphabetically (View->Sort Alphabetically)
    2. You are sorting by status (View->Sort by Status) and View->Configure Status Sort has "Sort within status groups: Alphabetically" selected.

Showing Offline Contacts

  1. Select Show Offline Contacts from the View menu or hit Shift-⌘-H. Repeat the process to hide offline contacts.
  • Either press ⌘-Delete, or choose Remove Contact from the Contact menu.

Setting a Contact's Name (Alias)

In some situations you may want to change how Adium displays a contact's name in your Contact List. To do this you will need to create an alias for that contact.

  1. Ctrl-Click the desired contact in the Contact List.
  2. Select Get Info from the Contact menu.
  3. Fill in the Alias field under the Settings tab.

Grouping Contacts Under One Alias

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Renaming Groups

This currently isn't possible in Adium. However, you may create an alias for the group name as a workaround.

  1. Ctrl-Click the desired group in the Contact List.
  2. Select Get Info from the contextual menu.
  3. Fill in the Alias field under the Settings tab.

Contact List Limits

Most services allow an unlimited number of contacts. Each individual AIM, ICQ, or MobileMe account can have a maximum of 500 contacts. This limit is set by the AOL servers; Adium itself places no limits.