From: David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca>
To: Ben Alexander <bva@alexanderonline.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: import mail messages like mhc?
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:55:49 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0ty70c7bd6.wl%bremner@pivot.cs.unb.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DBE523AC-B6FC-4B4C-88C2-2E6A9A328AAB@alexanderonline.org>
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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2008-10-25 17:30 import mail messages like mhc? Ben Alexander
2008-10-25 18:55 ` David Bremner [this message]
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2008-10-26 18:50 ` Robert Goldman
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2008-10-25 12:10 bremner
2008-10-25 17:05 ` Sebastian Rose
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