Problem with links to Wanderlust messages

Problem with links to Wanderlust messages

[Ronan BARZIC]

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Hi,

I've difficulties to understand how to make links to WL messages from an Org
file. According to the documentation, the syntax should be :

[[wl:folder#id][Description]]

- It is not clear for me if "id" is the number in front of the message in
the "WL "Summary" view ? Can someone confirm that ? (I have also a field
"Message-ID" in each message header)
- I'm using Maildir format (I use offlineimap) , therefore my WL inbox
folder starts with a "." :
  - from my .wl
     wl-default-folder ".INBOX"           ;; my main inbox
 I have the feeling that the dot at the beginning of the folder name
confuses the org-mode when I try to follow the link. For example, following
the link
[[wl:.INBOX#29333][TEST]]

trigger the following question in the minibuffer :
Search message in nntp server "localhost" <y/n/s(elect)>?

which fails whatever answer I give

Maybe I've misunderstood the documentation and I search the web without
success. I will really appreciate if someone could give me a example of a
working link using WL in a Maildir configuration

BTW, I'm using WL 2.25.9 and org-mode 7.01g


Ronan

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Re: Problem with links to Wanderlust messages

[Eric S Fraga]

Ronan BARZIC <rbarzic@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I've difficulties to understand how to make links to WL messages from an Org
> file. According to the documentation, the syntax should be :
>
> [[wl:folder#id][Description]]
>
> - It is not clear for me if "id" is the number in front of the message in the
> "WL "Summary" view ? Can someone confirm that ? (I have also a field
> "Message-ID" in each message header)

The easiest way to find out what should be there is to:

1. go to the WL message, in the Summary window say.
2. type C-cl (org-store-link)
3. go to your org document where you want to link from
4. type C-cC-l (org-insert-link) and hit RET to accept the default which
   should be the link you /stored/ above.

>  I have the feeling that the dot at the beginning of the folder name
> confuses the org-mode when I try to follow the link. For example,
> following the link  [[wl:.INBOX#29333][TEST]] 

I didn't find that the . caused any problems (the majority of my
mailboxes are in maildir format).  However, I must say that following
links to WL messages is not the most robust system.  The problems are
not in org but in WL, as far as I can tell.  

A couple of suggestions: make sure you have started WL *before*
attempting to follow a link from org in any case and make sure you don't
store a link from WL from within a filtered view.

Due to the problems with linking to WL message, and a few other issues,
I have recently moved back to GNUS which is basically more robust in all
ways (although has a much steeper learning curve... but that's a story
for another mailing list ;-).

> Maybe I've misunderstood the documentation and I search the web without
> success. I will really appreciate if someone could give me a example of a
> working link using WL in a Maildir configuration

One example I have looks like this =wl:.wlinbox#4C63A6XXX0304@XXX.ac.uk=

(with some bits replaced by XXX to protect the innocent)

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Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 8F5C 279D 3907 E14A 5C29  570D C891 93D8 FFFC F67D
using Org-mode version 7.02trans (release_7.3.6.gf0d2) 
in Emacs version 23.2.1

Re: Problem with links to Wanderlust messages

[Ronan BARZIC]

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Thank you very much ! It works now ! I thing I mixed-up the meaning of the
org-insert/org-store functions

Ronan

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> Ronan BARZIC <rbarzic@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've difficulties to understand how to make links to WL messages from an
> Org
> > file. According to the documentation, the syntax should be :
> >
> > [[wl:folder#id][Description]]
> >
> > - It is not clear for me if "id" is the number in front of the message in
> the
> > "WL "Summary" view ? Can someone confirm that ? (I have also a field
> > "Message-ID" in each message header)
>
> The easiest way to find out what should be there is to:
>
> 1. go to the WL message, in the Summary window say.
> 2. type C-cl (org-store-link)
> 3. go to your org document where you want to link from
> 4. type C-cC-l (org-insert-link) and hit RET to accept the default which
>   should be the link you /stored/ above.
>
> >  I have the feeling that the dot at the beginning of the folder name
> > confuses the org-mode when I try to follow the link. For example,
> > following the link  [[wl:.INBOX#29333][TEST]]
>
> I didn't find that the . caused any problems (the majority of my
> mailboxes are in maildir format).  However, I must say that following
> links to WL messages is not the most robust system.  The problems are
> not in org but in WL, as far as I can tell.
>
> A couple of suggestions: make sure you have started WL *before*
> attempting to follow a link from org in any case and make sure you don't
> store a link from WL from within a filtered view.
>
> Due to the problems with linking to WL message, and a few other issues,
> I have recently moved back to GNUS which is basically more robust in all
> ways (although has a much steeper learning curve... but that's a story
> for another mailing list ;-).
>
> > Maybe I've misunderstood the documentation and I search the web without
> > success. I will really appreciate if someone could give me a example of a
> > working link using WL in a Maildir configuration
>
> One example I have looks like this =wl:.wlinbox#4C63A6XXX0304@XXX.ac.uk=
>
> (with some bits replaced by XXX to protect the innocent)
>
> --
> Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 8F5C 279D 3907 E14A 5C29  570D C891 93D8 FFFC F67D
> using Org-mode version 7.02trans (release_7.3.6.gf0d2)
> in Emacs version 23.2.1
>

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