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John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> I usually do this kind of tracking with a link to the email instead. It
> is not automated communication between email and org, and it is not that
> complicated, but it does what I need, when I need it.

I will stop with shameless plugs at some point here, but this is exactly
what Gnorb does -- uses org to keep track of email conversations.
Tracking is done with vanilla org links and state-change log notes, but
the various gnorb functions make the whole process pretty much
automated.

https://github.com/girzel/gnorb#using-gnorb-for-tracking-email-todos

> Esben Stien <b0ef@esben-stien.name> writes:
>
>> Esben Stien <b0ef@esben-stien.name> writes:
>>
>>> Do you have any means to bring replies and such back into the org file?
>>
>> This seems like it could be a really good thing. 
>>
>> To be able to move the discussion to the relevant org file and then
>> structure it and prioritize/schedule from there. 
>>
>> It seems a lot better than to have all these different discussions
>> inside gnus, so I'd really like to try this.