Re: How to use `open` to handle `message:*` links on macOS

[Alexander Adolf]

Hello Tim,

Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> writes:

> [...]
> I'd like to be able to whack `C-c C-o` on `message:*` links on macOS and
> have it call `open` on the contents. Is there a way to make that happen?
>
> My intent is to be able to save a deep link to a Mail.app message in an org
> document.
> [...]

In my setup, I'm using this:
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(org-add-link-type "mac-mail" 'org-mac-mail-link-open)

(defun org-mac-mail-link-open (mid)
  "Visit the email message with message id MID."
  (start-process "open-mail" nil "open" (format "message:%%3C%s%%3E" mid)))
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It gives me a new link type "mac-mail" for org-insert-link. Copy the
message ID (without the angle brackets) from Mail.app, and insert it as
the link location. This is a manual process, of course, but then I'm not
using it often, and I don't need it for anything else but Mail.app.

org-mac-link as suggested by Diego offers much more convenience by
automating the entire process, and by giving you access to many other
apps, too. So you might prefer that if you are going to use it often.


Hoping to have helped,

  --alex