Importing a Windows Address Book into Spasm

These instructions require the use of Microsoft Excel or a similar spreadsheet program. For those users with broadband who do not own Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice, a free alternative Office suite, may be used.

You can get the email addresses from your address book into your Spasm whitelist by following these steps:

Go to instructions for exporting a Microsoft Outlook address book

Importing an Outlook Express Address Book

1. Open Outlook Express
2. Click the Tools menu and select Address Book
3. In the Address Book window, click the File menu, click Export and then click Other Address Book
4. In the Address Book Export Tool window, select Text File (Comma Separated Values) and then click Export
5. In the CSV Export window, click the Browse button
6. In the Save As window, click the "Save in" field, select Desktop, then type "Address Book" in the "File name" field and click Save
7. In the CSV Export window, click the Next button and then the Finish button
8. In the Address Book dialog box, click the OK button
9. In the Address Book Export Tool window, click the Close button
10. Close the Address Book window and the Outlook Express window
11. Locate the Address Book file on your desktop and double-click it
12. Once the Address Book opens in Excel, on your keyboard, press the down arrow once and then the right arrow once
13. Press and hold the Shift key on your keyboard
14. Holding the Shift key, press the down arrow on your keyboard to highlight all of the email addresses
15. Release the Shift key
16. Click the Edit menu and select Copy
17. Log into Spasm at https://ssl.aracnet.com/cgi-bin/spasm.cgi
18. Click the Whitelist button in Spasm
19. Click in the whitelist field and place the cursor on a blank line
20. Click the Edit menu and select Paste
21. Click the Update button
22. Close the Excel window

You're done!

Importing a Microsoft Outlook Address Book into the Spasm Whitelist.

1. Open Outlook
2. Click the File menu and select Import and Export
3. In the "Choose an action to perform" box, select Export to a file and click Next
4. In the "Create a file of type" box, select Comma separated Values (Windows) and click Next
5. In the "Select folder to export from" box, select Contacts and click Next
6. Click the Browse button
7. In the "Save in" box, select Desktop
8. In the "File name" box, type Contacts and click OK
9. Click Next
10. Click the Map Custom Fields button
11. Click the Clear Map button
12. In the "From" box, scroll down and click the + next to "E-mail"
13. Click and drag E-mail Address into the "To" box on the right
14. Click OK
15. Click Finish
16. Close the Outlook window
17. Locate the Contacts file on your desktop and double-click it
18. Once the Contacts file opens in Excel, on your keyboard, press the down arrow once
19. Press and hold the Shift key on your keyboard
20. Holding the Shift key, repeatedly press the down arrow on your keyboard until all of the email addresses are highlighted
21. Release the Shift key
22. Click the Edit menu and select Copy
23. Log into Spasm at https://ssl.aracnet.com/cgi-bin/spasm.cgi
24. Click the Whitelist button in Spasm
25. Click in the whitelist field and place the cursor on a blank line
26. Click the Edit menu and select Paste
27. Click the Update button
28. Close the Excel window

You're done!