On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:08:33 +0100
Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org> wrote: 

 as> Funnily enough, I implemented exactly this idea about 15 months
 as> ago, except that my implementation uses mairix (the mail indexer),
 as> and is mode-agnostic.

Thanks a lot, this is most interesting and put me on the right track.

Combining your work with that of Guy Hillenius, which he blogged at
http://www.hillenius.net/node/44 I integrated Gnus, Mairix & Org now.

The core is a patch for org.el -- this patch is still somewhat
primitive, but should not break anything and unless the new variables
are changed will not change standard behaviour: