From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Bremner Subject: Re: import mail messages like mhc? Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:55:49 -0300 Message-ID: <0ty70c7bd6.wl%bremner@pivot.cs.unb.ca> References: Reply-To: David Bremner Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by EMIKO 1.14.1 - "Choanoflagellata") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KtoIo-0008R3-FD for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:55:58 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KtoIn-0008Qi-Jj for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:55:58 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37195 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KtoIn-0008Qf-EP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:55:57 -0400 Received: from pivot.cs.unb.ca ([131.202.240.57]:38194) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KtoIn-0000sM-GJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:55:57 -0400 Received: from bremner by pivot.cs.unb.ca with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KtoIh-0005N4-7p for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:55:51 -0300 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ben Alexander Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.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.