Re: Link from orgmode file to E-Mail (using kmail or notmuch)

[Dirk-Jan C. Binnema]

On Tuesday Jan 24 2023, Ihor Radchenko wrote:

> AW <alexander.willand@t-online.de> writes:
>
>>> It is not up to Org. Try
>>> 
>>>  (browse-url "mid:3218434.44csPzL39Z@linux.fritz.box")
>>> 
>>> You will likely see nothing.
>>
>> Well, M-x  (browse-url "mid:3218434.44csPzL39Z@linux.fritz.box") 
>> produces [No match].
>
> This is not a command.
> You need M-: (...
>
>>> So, while Org may provide some limited help with mid:, as Max suggested,
>>> there is no way to guarantee that mid: links will work for all users
>>> without users hand-customizing how to open emails.
>>> 
>>> I am not even sure if we need to make Org open mid: links via
>>> `browse-url'. Maybe it should be something else? IDK.
>>
>> This is weird since ever. I've been talking to some collegues and everybody 
>> has his/her own special approach. Mostly producing a PDF from the E-Mail and 
>> saving this and its attachments somewhere. That's a thing that bothered me 
>> for 
>> decades. 
>
> Well. The more widely used standard is Maildir - downloading emails from
> server to local machine. Emails are just files there that can be indexed
> by variety of mail client software.
>
> The main question is which email clients actually support mid: links.
> notmuch does, but in non-standard way, without doing it system-wide.

Sorry if I'm repeating things earlier mentioned...

mu4e supports message-id links through org-mode, and I *extensively*
use that my agenda / todo lists. E.g.,
   mu4e:msgid:CACwzTKkeyptMcOA=jq8y23948-FKyfKMTwU3FA@mail.gmail.com

To make it work through browse-url (is that useful?) shouldn't be too
hard to configure `browse-url-default-handlers' for that. For mu4e that
could simply use `mu4e-org-open', except that mu4e uses `msgid' (a
better name imho) rather than `mid'.

Kind regards,
Dirk.

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