Hmm, it was only the Windows-using suits and marketroids that used EOM or n/m in a subject line in my old unixish place of work. The rest of us sent subject-only e-mails using mailx from the shell. ‘gone to the canteen’ needs no further explanation.

Ha! I may stand corrected here.

In my experience, if you send someone an email with just a Subject line, they tend to think you’ve forgotten something or are just really dim. :)

If you find yourself doing this a lot, I recommend rearranging the action order for the Text object type.

Go to the QS preferences, click on “Actions”. You’ll get two panes; pick “Text” on the left. On the right you’ll see all the actions you can do to text. Drag the one you find yourself doing the most to the top of the list; disable any you don’t use.

Now you can skip the second pane and go directly to the third.

Good one, Dan.

I try leave my #1 as “Paste” and #2 as “Append to…” but that’s a great suggestion.

There’s a lot of power in that Actions area. Do you notice that yrs get re-jiggered when you add new Services, and Plugins? Seems like new ones always gobble the top slot wherever they apply.

I do find that happening occasionally, and I also don’t think there’s a lot of clarity as to what the actions and data types actually represent. I’ve got two actions named “Open” with the Mail.app icon next to it - I don’t get it.

But, then again, in terms of all QS functionality, this is still a very young feature. I can wait for the clarity.

Appending EOM might be a good idea to help out scripting on the other end - if you use Growl to display notifications for some emails, you could do something different for ones with EOM at the end, like marking them as read since the whole message fits into the Growl notification.

Can you execute shell commands straight from quicksilver without opening terminal or iterm?

From a shell this is so easy,

echo “thanks” | mail -s “please get bread on your way home” honey

This looks nice, but I don’t get “Send directly”. I get send, but it brings up mail with everything filled in. Then I have to lift a finger to click send (oh, woe, alas, poor me, whine). If it were not for insatiable curiosity, I’d be content. What am I missing?

Try going to your QS Preferences…, select the Actions tab and then select Text. In the list of Actions make sure you have the “Send directly” option checked. Works great for one-off IM messages too!

In fact, you can also send complete messages from Quicksilver in the same way by using ‘>>’ to separate the subject from the body.

For example,

What’s with your TPS Reports… >>[option-return] Did you get the memo??

will send the message with the subject “What’s with your TPS Reports…” and body “Did you get the memo??”

You can type newline characters in the text area by pressing [option-return], as I suggested there, but it’s not necessary for the >> trick to work.

It’s a great way to fire off quick messages, even if they’re not one-liners.

not that I can’t figure out another way to do this but I am now curious- like Edward above, i also do not have the “Send Directly” nor an Actions Tab under preferences- I am using v1c39 on 10.4.2- which ver does this work under?

got it now… had to update to newest QS. And it’s just as slick as it sounded!

For those of you who don’t see the “Actions” pane in Preferences, you need to check the box “Enable Advanced Features” under “Application.” Then you’ll see the “Actions” pane and can modify the Text type to allow the Send Directly action.