From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Goldman Subject: Re: import mail messages like mhc? Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:50:59 -0500 Message-ID: <4904BC13.20309@sift.info> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KuAhm-0007i2-JR for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:51:14 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KuAhk-0007gI-4t for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:51:13 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60879 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KuAhj-0007fx-RK for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:51:11 -0400 Received: from outbound-mail-153.bluehost.com ([67.222.39.33]:42095) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KuAhj-0002cM-A5 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:51:11 -0400 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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, bva@alexanderonline.org > Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:30:18 +0100 > From: Ben Alexander > Subject: Re: [Orgmode] import mail messages like mhc? > To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > Cc: bremner@unb.ca > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > On 2008-Oct-25, at 16:39, emacs-orgmode-request@gnu.org wrote: >> From: bremner@unb.ca >> Date: 25 October 2008 13:10:27 BST >> To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org >> Subject: [Orgmode] import mail messages like mhc? >> >> >> >> Hi All; >> >> I am currently using a Frankenstein-duct-tape-monster made from mhc >> and org-mode to track time and manage todos. For various reasons I >> would like to switch to just org-mode. One thing I really like about >> mhc is the ability to semi-automatically turn a mail message (in >> e.g. mew, gnus, wanderlust) into an agenda item/todo. Partly this is >> because mhc agenda items are MH messages, but the thing I would like >> to copy is that it reads the message body and surprisingly often >> guesses the date and time of an appointment. Before I try to port this >> to org-mode, has someone already done something similar? >> >> David >> > > > 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. This is good; I want offline > access. But this is bad: I want to refile email entries and move the > messages on IMAP server into folders. Everything I've read indicates > that once the mail has been downloaded to my laptop, any organization > is only local, and not synced back to the IMAP folders. (And no, > unfortunately I don't have login access to my IMAP server -- I do have > ftp access though) > > Does anyone have some cheap advice on mixing email and org-mode? I am afraid my results are mostly negative. For reasons like yours, I use IMAP, and keep my myriad folders on the server. I have settled on thunderbird as the best client for my purposes. Some alternatives I considered: I could never get my head around gnus as a client --- I guess for me, reading email is fundamentally UNlike reading news. VM does not have a fully functional IMAP client, so I reluctantly gave it up two or so years ago. mutt seems too primitive, and why would I want to learn another extension language? Perhaps if I could have programmed it in some language with which I was familiar... Note that thunderbird provides offline function of the sort you want --- just click "work offline." Alas, I have not been able to make thunderbird provide me with links into emails so that I could click on an email link in org and jump thunderbird to that point. Perhaps some serious examination of the javascript api into thunderbird could provide an extension that would do this. For now, I have been saving emails and putting them in as attachments. Not fully satisfactory. Robert