Email, Messaging, & Video Calls > Email How to Add a Sender to OS X Mail Contacts Quickly By Heinz Tschabitscher Heinz Tschabitscher Writer University of Vienna A former freelance contributor who has reviewed hundreds of email programs and services since 1997. lifewire's editorial guidelines Updated on February 24, 2020 Tweet Share Email PeopleImages / Getty Images Tweet Share Email Email Yahoo! Mail Gmail You can set up an easy keyboard shortcut for adding people to your address book. It's a good habit to add just about everyone who sends you an email to your address book. Who knows what once it could be good for, right? Mac OS X Mail helps with this obsession as it offers a handy shortcut that lets you add any sender to the address book quickly. Add a Sender to the Mac OS X Mail Address Book Open a message from the sender you wish to add.Press Command+Shift+Y.If the keyboard shortcut is not working, see below for adding it.You can also select Message > Add Sender to Contacts from the menu. This adds the sender's email address (together with her name, if one appears in the From: line) to the address book without asking any questions. If you want to edit the newly added contact (to assign a picture to it, for example), open Contacts separately. Keyboard Shortcut for Adding Senders in OS X Mail To set up a keyboard shortcut for adding senders to the address book in OS X Mail: Select Apple > System Preferences… Open the Keyboard section. Go to the Shortcuts tab.Select App Shortcuts.Click +.Make sure Mail is selected under Application:.Type “Add Sender to Contacts” under Menu Title.Click on the Keyboard Shortcut field.Press Command+Shift+Y.Click Add. Was this page helpful? Thanks for letting us know! Get the Latest Tech News Delivered Every Day Email Address Sign up There was an error. Please try again. You're in! Thanks for signing up. There was an error. Please try again. Thank you for signing up! Tell us why! Other Not enough details Hard to understand Submit