Ok. I think the problem is with the address book plugin. I certainly have it installed BUT when I type "apple inc" for instance (an address which is in the address book by default)... nothing comes up!
I don't suppose someone has had similar problems with address book plugin on snow leopard? Can you confirm I am correctly trying to use the address book feature of QS? As always thanks for your help (and patience) Adil On Oct 19, 2:57 pm, Tim Visher <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Adil, > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 6:09 PM, AMughal wrote: > > I'm running snow leopard and I have quicksilver B58 (3841). > > > I want to send emails to people in my address book. I do the following > > steps: > > > (1) invoke quick silver > > > (2) Type "." and enter a message such as: hello > > > (3) press tab and start typing "Email..." and it auto completes to > > give "Email to (compose)" > > > (4) press tab again and start typing the name of a contact, eg send it > > to myself "adil" > > > (5) hit return... > > > (6) I get an error message "invalid address" ..."missing email > > address"... > > > I have the apple address book module installed... and my email is > > under my name... and yet quicksilver is not able to understand whom > > the email is meant for. Of course if I deliberately type out my full > > email address in step (4) everything is fine > > > Any ideas? > > Few things: > > 1. Do you also have the Apple Mail module installed and have an > account set up in mail? If you're trying to use the GMail module, for > instance, I was never able to get that to work. However, Mail.app > works fine. > > 2. Are you sure that that contact has a working address set up and > that it's the first mail address that quicksilver is seeing when you > try to send to that contact? To verify, you can type the name of the > person and then `/` to go into the contents and see what mail address > pops up first. > > 3. I only ever use `Email to... (Send)` to send mail from Quicksilver > unless I am sending a file and then it's `Email item... (Send)`. I > believe the `Email to... (Compose)` should bring up a new mail window > in Mail.app and let you continue writing your message. Is that the > behavior you see when you type out the mail address manually? > > Anyway, just some thoughts. > > -- > > In Christ, > > Timmy V. > > http://blog.twonegatives.com/http://five.sentenc.es/-- Spend less time on mail
