Re: keeping track of sent emails in org?

From: "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: sebastian_rose@gmx.de
Cc: Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: keeping track of sent emails in org?
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:11:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878ws97vrr.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4905D7AD.2090700@gmx.de

Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de> writes:

> Hi Bill,
>
>
> to add links to autgoing mails automatically, adding a link to such a
> mail once should be enough, to add the right funciton to your
> 'mail-send-hook' (?? don't no which hook really...) since it's just a
> question of the link format.
>

It seems like this could get complicated as it depends on how/where you
store your sent messages.  Also, it looks like org-mode links rely on
the gnus group, and article id to link back to an article, so somehow
you would need a hook which runs after the sent article has been saved
into a group and given an ID.  If this has been done before with
planner, then it should be fairly straightforward to examine the
previous implementation and adapt it to org-mode.  Or I could be
horribly wrong.

>
> If no one has done this until now, please share it here. I use gnus,
> but I still BCC myself to 'store' my outgoing mail :-)
> As for me, I'd prefer a way to keep my outgoing mails directly in
> gnus.
>

I'm straying slightly off topic here, but take a look at `gcc-self'
under gnus:Group Parameters.  It automatically saves a copy of outgoing
mail into the group from which the mail was sent.  I use the following
to turn it on for all of my mail groups.

(setq gnus-parameters
      '(("mail\\..*"
	 (gcc-self . t))))

Cheers -- Eric

> > >
> Something like this should work:
>
>
> (setq org-remember-templates
>       '(("sent-mails" ?m "* Mail sent %u\n %a\n" "organizer.org" "Sent")))
>
> (defun my-store-link()
>   "Docs for my-store-link"
>   (org-remember ?m)) ;; the `m' is the short cut for the template.
>
> (add-hook 'your-hook-here 'my-store-link)
>
>
> I don't know how to suppress the interactive part of it (C-c C-c to
> store it away), but sometimes you might add a short note anyway.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>    Sebastian
>
> Sebastian Rose wrote:
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>>
>> links are one of the great features of Org-mode. Basically, links are
>> added in two ways:
>>
>> a) Remember templates (automatic):
>>    You're reading an email in Gnus or another emacs mail reader, and
>>    want to add a note somewhere. To do this, you set up (once) a
>>    so called 'remember template'. See
>>    http://orgmode.org/manual/Remember.html#Remember how to do this.
>>    Org automatically adds a link to the mail/file/whatever, which
>>    brings you back to that mail/file/whatever, as you click on it.
>>
>> b) Semi-automatic:
>>    You want to add a link to an email/file/whatever to existing notes.
>>    To do this, visit the email/file/whatever and press 'C-c l'
>>    (org-store-link) to store a link to that location for later use.
>>    Back in your Org-file, you press 'C-c C-l' (org-insert-link),
>>    which provides you with a list of all stored links during your
>>    emacs session. You select the last one by pressing 'UP' once, and
>>    you're done.
>>    See http://orgmode.org/manual/Handling-links.html#Handling-links
>>
>> c) By hand:
>>    Also, you may add links to locations by hand. The syntax for links
>>    is described here:
>>    http://orgmode.org/manual/Hyperlinks.html#Hyperlinks
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>   Sebastian
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Bill White wrote:
>>> Hi all -
>>>
>>> I'm looking into porting my planner/muse/gnus infrastructure to org.
>>> One indispensible bit of code in my current system writes a gnus message
>>> link in the current day's planner file every time I send a message from
>>> gnus.  It uses Sacha Chua's sacha/planner-gnus-track-sent method here:
>>>
>>> http://sachachua.com/notebook/wiki/2006.08.10.php#anchor-3
>>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.wiki.general/6017
>>>
>>> Has someone already written something like this for org?  Perhaps a
>>> remember-like mechanism that writes a link to, say, Email.org?  Perhaps
>>> messages could be filed under date headlines:
>>>
>>> * Sunday, October 26, 2008
>>> ** message 1 recipient:subject
>>> [link] (or contents?)
>>> ** message 2 recipient:subject
>>> [link] (or contents?)
>>>
>>> or somesuch.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any thoughts about this -
>>>
>>> bw
>>
>>
>>
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