The Contacts tab, the second icon in the bar at the bottom of the screen, is BlueMail's home for the people you email: your contacts, the groups you build from them, and the conversations you have going with them.
What's on the Contacts screen
The current account is shown at the top, with Contacts under its name. Everything listed below belongs to that account. At the top right are a search icon and the Create New button (a group icon and a +), which offers Create Group or Create Contact.
Below that, the screen has three sections. Tap Show fewer next to a section's name to shorten it.
- Recent Conversations: your latest conversations with people that have unread messages, with the time of the newest one. When nothing new is waiting, it says All caught up. A conversation with several people has a small + on its picture. Tap it to turn those people into a group.
- Contact List: your contacts and your groups together, in one list. Each row has two buttons, one to start a chat and one to send an email.
- Suggested groups: groups BlueMail suggests, based on your recent conversations. Tap Name Group to create one. See What are Suggested Groups?
Opening a contact or a group
- Tap a contact to see the emails you have exchanged with them. All, Unread and Starred at the top narrow the list, and the buttons at the bottom start a chat or a new email. Tap their picture at the top to open their contact page, with Edit, Hidden in autocomplete, Add to Phonebook and Delete Contact. See How Do I Edit a Contact's Settings?
- Tap a group to see the emails sent to it. Tap the group's name at the top to open Group Info, where you can rename the group, change its photo, add members, or leave or delete it. See Naming a Group and Setting a Photo and How Do I Delete a Group?
To create a group from scratch, see Creating and Removing a Group. To email a group, see How to Send an Email to a Group.
Managing everything from Settings
Settings | Groups & Contacts shows the same contacts in a view built for tidying up. It has three sections, Suggested groups, Groups (the groups you created or joined) and Contacts (the people you have saved or emailed), and every group and contact has an Edit button. Sort by puts the lists in Name (A–Z) or Name (Z–A) order.
Groups belong to one account
Every group is stored under the account that was selected when it was created. Switch to a different account and the Contacts tab shows that account's groups instead.
"My groups disappeared." This is almost always account selection, not data loss: BlueMail is showing a different account from the one the groups were created under. Tap your account name at the top of the mail list to open the account picker, switch back to the right account, then open Contacts again. If the groups don't turn up under any of your accounts, contact support@bluemail.me.
Not the same thing: the Group Mail folder
You may also see Group Mail in the folder list (tap your account picture at the top left of the mail list). Despite the shared name, that is part of your mail folders. It is not where your groups are stored or managed, and opening it won't bring back a "missing" group. To manage the groups themselves, their names, photos and members, use the Contacts tab or Settings | Groups & Contacts. For an overview of the feature, see What Is Group Mail?
"People" and "Groups" in Clusters
BlueMail's Clusters feature also uses the names People and Groups, for its email categories: person-to-person mail and group conversations. Those are views of your inbox, not this screen, and they exist even if you have never created a group. See What Are Clusters? and Turning Cluster Mode On or Off.
