Comments on: Quicksilver Screencast: Quick Emails

By: angie duruma

angie duruma — Wed, 27 May 2009 08:45:55 +0000

This would work for me if I had a Mac computer

By: Greg Loesch

Greg Loesch — Sun, 10 May 2009 05:45:45 +0000

Is there a way to enter a custom subject line when using the “Email to… (Send)” option in QS or any of the other email “actions”?

“Subject>>Message body” looked to be my answer, but I’m unsure where to implement this. Any help would be great. Thanks!

By: Nic

Nic — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:57:06 +0000

Hi… I have the solution to the missing “Mail” icon for the mail plugins (for those of us so anal that we don’t like the “gear” icon!).

Basically you need to modify the “Email Support.qsplugin” which you will find in “Macintosh HD:Users:yourname:Library:Application Support:Quicksilver:PlugIns” folder.

Select the plugin file in Finder, right-click and select “Show Package Contents”, and then open the “info.plist” file with TextEdit.

You then need to do a search and replace: Find “DefaultMailIcon” and replace it with “com.apple.mail”

Then save the file and restart Quicksilver.

(you will note that there are two instances of mail actions where the icon name was “quicksilver” and no “defaultmailicon” – leave these alone, because this will tell you easily that the action does not go through mail.app!

I hope this helps!

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By: Samvel

Samvel — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:46:30 +0000

I have OS X 10.5. Using Direct Send works perfectly, as it is expected – without even opening any window.

Unfortunately action “Email To… (Send)” Always opens window, automatically fills all values and sends email. Of course I don’t do anything with this Pop-Up Composition window (it stays on screen only for 1-2 seconds) but it annoys me.

Does anyone also experience the same issue? How can I get rid of it?

By: frogg

frogg — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:13:47 +0000

@21 Eric

and a correction to my own post in #23; after making Compose Email have a better Ranking than Show Contact, it is now as simple as:

invoke QS, type a contact name and then just hit Enter!

this has just revolutionised my workflow!

best wishes,
/Jim

By: frogg

frogg — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:05:52 +0000

@21 – Eric

i have just spent a few mins looking into this, and i now have a better solution than my previous suggestion!

in QS preferences, under Actions, All Actions, drag the Compose Email rule so that it is higher in the list than the Show Contact rule (which was Rank 8 by default on my install – whereas Compose Email was twenty-something, i think)

now, when you invoke QS and type a contact name, the default action should now be Compose Email, just hit Tab then Enter and… bingo!

best wishes,
/Jim

By: Arild

Arild — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:51:42 +0000

Hi
Can Quicksilver do a simular action like the script in Automator called “add attachment to front message”?
This action add a attachment to an open mail.

Regards Arild

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:08:07 +0000

Is there a way where I can:
-Invoke a trigger
-start typing a name to search for a contact
-push Enter
-a Mail Compose window pops up with only the address field filled out

Thanks!
Eric

By: Donut

Donut — Fri, 11 May 2007 20:07:56 +0000

i just got done watching your screencast, and am trying to mimick all that you did there.
i use Gmail as my main email. i dont use the Mail app in OSX at all.
when i tried to do that last thing you did with getting the object and Email To..(Send) , and then typing in the email address. instead of it just getting sent off. it actually goes an opens Firefox and shows me the compose window. given that the file is already shown to be attached and what not. but it doesnt do as you did in the screencast, where it just sends on its own.
how can i bypass the step of having to go into the compose window in Firefox??

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 11 May 2007 18:23:12 +0000

I see that you used gMail in your screencast to receive the email, but not to send it. Is it possible to configure this QS trick to send out emails via gMail (have it come from the proper address, get logged in your Sent Mail folder, etc)?

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By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:08:56 +0000

Just for completeness: The icon replacements are from Somatic by [David Lanham](http://www.dlanham.com/art/somadocs/)

By: mistercharlie

mistercharlie — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:02:50 +0000

Other tips. You can have a different subject line using this syntax:

Subject>>Message body.

The chevrons tell QS that it should separate the first part and put it in the subject line.

Another tip. Use option-return to put line breaks in the message. This works pretty much anywhere you are inputting text and the default action for the return key trigers something, eg. Adium.

By: Gavin

Gavin — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:22:47 +0000

I have been watching the qs series of screen casts and there is something I have been trying to figure out.

You seem to have been able to customise the dropdown menu so there are no second line (comments) there and I can’t figure out how to do the same. Could you tell me how you have done that?

Thanks!

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:35:52 +0000

My question is actually an off-topic one and maybe you already mentioned it sometimes before, but I wanted to ask which icon replacement do you use for the textsnippets. When you enter something in textmode and switch to the next panel then for me the standard apple textsnippet icon appears. you in turn got that pink one. could you say where you got it from?

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:01:38 +0000

@Jaakko: You can use cmd+g in any pane to grab the currently selected finder object. Which includes the desktop

@Nick: You might also want to look at the direct send methods which use QS directly depending what you are sending it can be nicer than using Mail.app. I only use mail.app because I need to have my sent mail in an IMAP folder

By: RFrye

RFrye — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:37:47 +0000

Nick,

Fairly new with QS. Trying to understand its functions as quick as possible. I love the strength it gives me.

I struggle with the same problem as gulup, my compose action is also set as the wheel and not the standard mail icon. I noticed a difference on mine as you were walking through the set up. On my computer, Preferences > Actions > search mail, i dont have the same options to turn on and off. I have compose email, email to…(Send) but they are all the QS icons and not the mail icons. How can I get this to actually run through Mail.app.

If I try and run Compose Email (QS icon) i get and error stating: An error occurred while sending mail. Mail got an error :NSUnknownKeyScriptError.

Thanks

By: Obvious Troll

Obvious Troll — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:50:11 +0000

Nick,

Like someone else mentioned, I was able to bring up a contact directly in the 3rd pane – and I noticed one other thing that was interesting. Your “Email To” action has a mail.app icon – but mine is a generic gear. I don’t know why that would be, but it might be an indication that you’ve got a different version of the email plug-in, maybe?

By: Jaakko

Jaakko — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:22:58 +0000

Another great Quicksilver screencast. In addition I’d like to know how do you setup a proxy object that when you hit command+escape it loads the file you’ve currently selected into Quicksilver. (Just like you do in the screencast)