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Re: [Orgmode] import mail messages like mhc?


From: David Bremner
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] import mail messages like mhc?
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:55:49 -0300
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At Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:30:18 +0100,
Ben Alexander wrote:

> Completely unrelated to org-mode: I would love to move my email to
> Emacs and use something like this, but I the only solutions I can
> understand rely on moving mail from my IMAP based inbox onto the
> local system.

[snip]
> Does anyone have some cheap advice on mixing email and org-mode?

Wanderlust has good support for disconnected operation with IMAP,
including refiling, deleting, replying...

> Since I haven't gotten any further than wishing Emacs could read my
> mail, I haven't looked to see if the (org-store-link) does the right
> magic thing in Rmail and/or Gnus.  According the org-mode manual,
> there is all kinds of support for linking from your org-mode buffer
> back to the original email.

The linking to mail messages is good (at least in Wanderlust, where I
tested it), but it grabs only the subject header by default.

[snip]
> of the cruft of the To: field and the Subject: field.  But within the
> minibuffer, I could hit C-p to get the the line with the date and
> *poof* like magic it found the date.  And the minibuffer shows you
> what  date it has computed.

I'll have to play with that a bit, I'm hoping for something relatively
automatic.  For example, MHC grabbed the 'next monday' out of your
message and turned that into 2008/10/27.





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