Re: Link from orgmode file to E-Mail (using kmail or notmuch)

[Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>]

On 23/01/2023 01:47, AW wrote:
>> We could support mid: is the corresponding url schema existed and
>> supported by various OSes.
> Isn't this rather important? How many users of orgmode get TODOs via E-Mail
> and need an efficient way to come back from the TODO to its origin?

I agree that linking mail messages and Org notes is important. On the 
other hand my impression is that the "mid:" URI protocol is not adopted 
wide enough by mail user agents yet, so it is too early to enable it by 
default in Org.

Configuring of "mid:" links requires just a few lines in init.el and 
they are quite usual for custom links.

Alexander, you have tried 2 mail application and it seems neither of 
them supports "mid:" links out of the box. Notmuch looks almost ready, 
it needs just a .desktop file and configuring `browse-url-handlers' on 
activation. Have you checked if kmail bug tracker has a feature request 
for "mid:" links? I am not sure that KDE bug trackers are indexed by 
search engines.

 From the blog post by Karl Voit I have an impression that developers of 
Evolution do not follow RFC since posted command example contains angle 
brackets (mid:<...@...>). Such format causes "not found" error in 
Thunderbird.

On 23/01/2023 17:40, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> I am not even sure if we need to make Org open mid: links via
> `browse-url'. Maybe it should be something else? IDK.

Do you know an alternative? Org already uses this package to open some 
types of links. It allows to have the same handler for all Emacs 
packages. I do not think that Org-specific handler would be better.