Does it work in reverse? That is enter the contact in the first pane and use the Email Item...(Compose) action and text in the third pane.
I could guess at two problems using Apple as the contact. (1) It might not have an email address (mine doesn't) and (2) QS might not like contacts that are companies instead of people. Howard On Oct 19, 2010, at 7:23 PM, AMughal wrote: > 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
