Importing personal contacts
You can import personal contacts from a comma-separated value (csv) file, vCard (VCF) file or any file name without a file extension, for example, testfile. The import process accepts files that are 10 MB or less. You cannot update contacts that are listed in the corporate directory.
Before you begin
Before you import contacts from another email program, such as Outlook Express, use that email program to export your contact information to either a comma-separated value (.csv) or vCard (.vcf) file type.
Before you import contacts, verify that the character set is UTF-8 or ANSI.
About this task
You can have as many as 2000 contacts. If the .csv or .vcf file that you are importing includes more than 2000 contacts, or, if the number of existing IBM Web Mail Cloud contacts plus the number of contacts in the .csv or .vcf file exceeds 2000, the extra contacts in the import file are ignored.
Make sure that you know the directory path of all files that contain information that you want to import. You need to specify this information before importing.
If you have multiple .vcf files, you can merge them into one .vcf file for importing.
Incorrectly formatted data in the .csv or .vcf file is ignored.
The contacts that you import are added to My contacts. You can also view these contacts from All contacts.
Procedure
- Navigate to .
- Select Import contacts.
- Select Browse to navigate to the .csv or .vcf file that you used to store your contacts.
- After you select the file, select Import.
Results
A status message indicates that the contacts are being imported. The import process can take more than several minutes. During the import process, you can use other Web Mail Cloud features.