“Show Emails from” Script for Address Book
Armin has written 
a clever little Address Book plugin that quickly finds and lists in Mail.app all the emails you have received from a particular email address.
After installing it with the instructions on his site, clicking and holding the cursor over an email label in Address Book gives you a “Show Emails from” option.
Click it, and — voila! — the plugin opens an Address search in Mail.app for that email address.
Of course, you can do the same thing manually in Mail.app, but this is much quicker.
And tools that help Address Book and Mail.app to work more closely together without actually mashing them up are welcome.
UPDATE: In order for this script to work you need to have the “Enable access for assistive devices” option checked in the Universal Access Preferences pane of System Preferences.
Tags: Address Book, Apple Mail, applescript, automation, integration, mail.app, plugins, ProductivityRelated posts
November 6th, 2006 at 8:11 am
This didn’t work for me at first. If you read farther down the page into the comments you will see that you HAVE to have “Enable assitive devices” activated in the Universal Access Preference Pane. After checking that box it work right away.
November 6th, 2006 at 11:30 am
You’re quite right. Thanks for pointing that out; I should have mentioned that.
December 8th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
I have “Enable assitive devices†activated, and after clicking on “show emails from” a Mail.app window opens but states “no mailbox selected”. What have i done wrong or simply not done?