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. That tiny and easy to overlook dot (eyeball?) that is for searching the PM address book should be changed. Every time I end up in the PM address book, I'm looking all over for a search trigger. There is a lot of space next to the "To", "CC", and "BCC" buttons, and I do literally mean a LOT of room for a visually acute "FIND" button. Some people don't have perfect vision and that tiny thing looks like a smudge - be considerate of those with visual impairments. Ok. I just had to get that off my chest because I've spent a lot of time creating various AppleScripts to add email addresses to my Apple Address Book and to groups in the AAB. I keep thinking it's going to be fixed in each upgrade/update, but that has yet to happen. It's a major nuisance to me, but I've refrained from mentioning it since I did so months ago. I have a long list of things I might have to mention now and then, so they aren't forgotten. cheshirekat -- Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. - Thomas Beecham (1879-1961), British conductor. quoted in Sunday Times (London, Sept. 16, 1962). * 867 PowerBook G4 * OS X 10.2.8 * 768 MB Ram *
