Re: inserting files within remember templates

[Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org>]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 02:39:07PM +0000, Bastien wrote:
> Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org> writes:
> 
> > I suppose it depends on the relative merits of parsing the mail via
> > the mutt helper (which is Perl in my case) vs. doing it with elisp.
> 
> In fact, I was not thinking of "parsing" the message.  I imagined that
> the mutt helper would just tell where the message file is, then Emacs
> would do the job of creating a link by visiting this file

That's going to be costly for mails with very large attachments.

> storing all relevant information into the properties of this link
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
By "relevant information" presumably you mean the mail's subject,
sender, recipients, message-id and so on?  In which case the mail
(header, at least) has to be parsed at some point, no?

> those properties being immediately reusable by a template.

Yes, that's certainly desirable.