So today I’ve been working on the address book part of Bouncy Mail and adding all sorts of inter weaving features linking your email account to your forum.

So to start things off, I’ve added some cool popup contact cards which display contact information of the email sender if their email address is stored in your address book. Sounds simple enough, but i took it a little bit further by adding a second contact card popup (the IP.Board Default) if you have linked that contact to a member of the forums.

It’s a great way to access all types of information from that person from a single place. In the image below you can see that from just receiving an email from a contact, you have instant access to their information in your address book without ever having to leave the page, furthermore, if that contact is linked to a forum member, you also have access to all their forum information from a second stemmed popup.

Simple ideas are sometimes the most useful and i think this will be a feature that a lot of people will be using all the time. Not only because you can view their information, but you can do other things with it too. For example, from the simple contact popup, you can instantly find all other contacts you have from the same company, so in the example below, My Company contact is BouncyServers and with a simple click of a button i can then list all my other BouncyServers contacts. For linked account you will also be able to instantly list all that persons topics and posts, again with just 1 click of a button.

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