* This would probably be a better "main hook" to use if you
elaborate/implement my suggestion:

vm-visit-folder-hook
List of hook functions called just after VM visits a folder. It doesn't
matter if the folder buffer already exists, this hook is run each time vm
or vm-visit-folder is called interactively. It is not run after vm-mode is
called.

** Then you change the mail folder into an OrgMode doc?

*** I vaguely remember this, may be wrong; but, I believe VM when saved as
folders, it is saved as simple text document you can then easily change
into .org docs using SED/AWK/PERL/PANDOC whatever.

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 1:55 PM, brian powell <briangpowellms@gmail.com>wrote:

> * Josh's answer seems great.
>
> ** I used to use VM in EMACS, worked great, highly recommend it--you could
> then use EMACS hooks like:
>
> "vm-mail-hook
> List of hook functions to be run after a Mail mode composition buffer has
> been created to send a non specialized message, i.e. a message that is not
> a reply, forward, digest, etc. VM runs this hook and then runs
> vm-mail-mode-hook before leaving you in the Mail mode buffer.
>
> --and hook those hooks (the list of hooks is 20+ long) up to creating an
> OrgMode document---maybe somewhat in the way Josh suggested--e.g.:
>
> (add-hook 'vm-summary-update-hook 'org-capture)
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am partial to just opening a mail buffer and writing email in Emacs.
>> Just that.  However, it would be great to save a copy in an org file.
>>
>> An emacs FAQ suggests sending a BCC or FCC to oneself.  What I want is a
>> copy stored in an org-mode subtree, with a convenient headline indicating
>> the name of the recipient and the date.
>>
>> So far, I haven't gotten my head around the idea of using BABEL, and I
>> still like text for email.     My experiments with GNUS have not been very
>> successful.  So far.
>>
>> I apologize for the naive level of this and some of my other questions.
>> Though I may not be getting the maximum usefulness of all of org-mode's
>> features, those features I do use are awesome.   Thank you.
>>
>> Alan Davis
>>
>
>