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From: "R. P. Dillon" <rpdillon@gmail.com>
To: org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Opening links to Outlook items from Org mode (may be a FR)
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:17:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48AF02D5.80703@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1iqtt2ide.fsf@bertrand.carcosa.net>

Jason F. McBrayer wrote:
> Manish <mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com> writes:
>
>   
>> I have to use Office and envy folks that can link to their emails
>> (Gnus, VM etc.) and contacts (bbdb) from Org mode.  So I was looking
>> around and found that links to Outlook items (emails, meetings,
>> contacts etc.)  of the form "Outlook:<GUID>" can be stored and opened
>> from other applications.  The links can be created (copied to
>> clipboard) using "Outlook Linker" utility as described in [1].
>>     
>
> (w32-shell-execute "open" "outlook:blahblah") should do what you need.
> The tricky part is getting the GUID into Emacs (requires gratis but
> proprietary utility you link to).
>
>   

Does anyone know if this type of linking is possible with Thunderbird?  
Some Googling hasn't turned up anything, so maybe the solution is to 
switch to GNUs.  I like to use org-mode as my central repository of 
information, and linking to email messages would really round out that 
functionality.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-22 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-21  6:16 Opening links to Outlook items from Org mode (may be a FR) Manish
2008-08-22  7:44 ` Ivan Kanis
2008-08-22 11:49   ` Manish
2008-08-22 19:13     ` Ivan Kanis
2008-08-22 15:13 ` Jason F. McBrayer
2008-08-22 15:39   ` Jason F. McBrayer
2008-08-22 18:00     ` Jason F. McBrayer
2008-08-22 18:17   ` R. P. Dillon [this message]
2008-08-22 19:51     ` Jason F. McBrayer

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