I tried that, It doesn't recognise any contacts... typing my own name into QS should at least come up as a contact somewhere in the list of "actions"... I certainly have myself as a contact in my address book.... Is there anyway of knowing if the address book plugin is working or not
On Oct 20, 12:27 am, Howard Melman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
