Comments on: Tutorial: Updating Backpack with Quicksilver

By: V.M.

V.M. — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:33:13 +0000

Got everything finally working – except emailing stuff to my Home Page!

All other pages work fine, but home page – the one I would need to use the QS the most does not. I wonder whats causing the problem. I already tried to renew the address. Perhaps this is a result of me making a duplicate of previous home page before clearing it. (Copy of the previous home page has not received any mailed notes / todos, and why should it have since it has different mail to address).

By: tunesmith

tunesmith — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:35:02 +0000

So, I went offsite, where Mail.app couldn’t use my default smtp mail sender. First time I tried sending an email from within Mail.app, it errored and had me pick a different smtp (one that authenticates, which works for me). Mail works by using that one for the rest of the Mail.app session.

Email to Directly didn’t work anymore.

Then I went back home where my default smtp mail sender works, and Email to Directly works.

Hope that’s a clue for other folks.

By: Chris Smith

Chris Smith — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 17:04:08 +0000

Thanks this was very helpful! One thing I might add: Quicksilver would not “rembember” my backpack username/password after quitting and restarting until I activated the “Keychain Module” plugin. Once I did it worked just fine.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:41:06 +0000

Couple of clarifications that a new user (such as myself) would need to make this work:

1) You must put QuickSilver into “Advanced” mode by checking “Enable Advanced Features” in the “Application” section of Preferences. This will require that you restart QS.

2) The Actions which need to be enabled are located in the “Actions” section of Preferences.

3) To configure the Backpack module, the Backpack username must be specified in the “Name” field; the API key from the Account page on Backpack goes in the “API Key” field. Your Backpack “Name” is the username you use when logging into Backpack; it is also the name in the front of your Backpack URL (e.g. foobar.backpackit.com—> foobar).

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:27:54 +0000

That was my problem – I was on b36. However, it doesn’t appear that the same Entourage email functionality that I had in b36 is in place in this version (b42).

Thanks!

By: Sam Newman

Sam Newman — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 09:20:16 +0000

It should be available from within quicksilver. Go to the plugins page in preferences. Select ‘available’ from the drop down (rather than the default ‘installed’ or ‘recommended’) and you’ll see it on the list (I’m assuming you have b40 or later).

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 00:49:13 +0000

Thanks for this info! Where do I find the Backpack plug-in?

By: sam newman

sam newman — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 20:50:53 +0000

According to this post on the Quicksilver forums, it seems that you should at least be able to start composing a message in Entourage using the Quicksilver plugin – not quite as slick I’ll admit, but better than nothing.

By: Merlin

Merlin — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 18:49:29 +0000

Not sure, but I think the Entourage plugin is limited to looking up contact info at this point.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 18:30:48 +0000

Thanks, Sam. Can you shed some light on how to make this work with Entouage? The “Email item” is not displayed in my preferences, despite the fact I have an Entourage plug-in installed. Perhaps this functionality is not yet available?