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Quicksilver & Entourage
Paul Sherman | Sep 24 2007
Hi, I am an independent project manager and use my Macbook Pro for business so I use Entourage for the work email and Apple mail for my personal email. Using Quicksilver I can find the contact but the compose email open automatically opens apple mail rather than Entourage. Does anyone know of any way that I can get it to create an Entourage email? Is it possible to choose the application for the email based on the contact? Any help that anyone could give me would be much appreciated. 3 Comments
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 Maybe a trigger + proxies?Submitted by Merlin Mann on September 24, 2007 - 5:54am.
We should shine up the “Emory Signal” — I’m pretty sure he’s an Entourage man and I imagine he’s a Quicksilver dude too. I don’t recall much about how the Entourage plug-in works, but I don’t think it exposes too much functionality for email (correct me if I’m wrong, friends). One janky, rigged option is to get a little advanced and do a trigger that access the Entourage menu. Might be too much work for what you get tho. »
 Quicksilver & EntourageSubmitted by Maxwell546 on September 24, 2007 - 11:10am.
I don’t know about how to choose the email application based on the contact (or contact group, I suppose), but all I did was change the default email application. I’m sure there are a few different ways to do this, but from within Apple Mail I went to “Mail | Preferences | General” and changed the default email reader to Entourage. Now every QS “Compose email…” command opens a new Entourage message. One thing to note - when I did “Email to (send directly)…” from QS, it still sent from the default Apple Mail address. I had to go to “QS | Preferences | Email Options” and specify a custom email address as the one I use through Entourage. Hope that helps a little. »
 Re: Quicksilver & EntourageSubmitted by psherman123 on September 25, 2007 - 1:39am.
Thanks Maxwell46! I amended the default and that works with Entourage so that will cover about 80% of my contacts and emails. For the other 20%, I’ll use the mail app to create new emails. »
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