Cheshirecat wrote the following quote in june 2004 and things are still inconsistent with how PM works with the Apple Addressbook. I just decided to finally start using the Addressbook for contacts, instead of Palm Desktop, but many people warned for synching both ways, so I kind of set out to use the Addressbook as a replacement for the PM address functionality. Obviously if the prefs have been set to use the Apple addressbook, there is where most editing commands should take you, no?
I too would like to see this made more coherent and living up to basic expectations. >Howdy all! > >If you right-click on a "From: " email address, you get the following >menu choices: > >Copy >Reveal in Address Book >Open Contact >Open Contact in PowerMail Address Book >New Message To > >The "Reveal in Address Book" choice opens the contact in PowerMail's >address book. So, essentially, it appears you have three ways (items 2, >3, 4) to view the same contact in the PowerMail address book, but still >no way to open the address in Apple's Address Book. But wait; if you >choose item 3, "Open Contact" it actually does open Apple's Address Book >- to "reveal" the contact. Confusing, isn't it? My preferences are set to >use Apple's Address Book in Preferences> Synchronization>"Open contacts >in Apple Address Book by default". > >If you right-click on a "From: " email address, that isn't already in >your Address Book, the menu choices are: > >Copy >Add to Address Book >New Message To > >That menu makes sense (although it obviously isn't concerned with >honoring the preferences) because once again, you end up in PowerMail's >address book. But once you finish adding the email address to the address >book, a right-click on a contact gives the following menu choices: > >Delete Address Book item >Open item ... >Open contact in PowerMail Address Book >To >CC >BCC > >Items 2 & 3 are the same because they perform the same actions and the >menu choices are again different if the contact you right-click on is a group. (Rest was cut for brevity) PM 5.2.1 | OS X 10.3.9 | Powerbook G4/400 | 768 MB RAM | 30 GB HD
