Re: keeping track of sent emails in org?

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Oct 27, 2008, at 10:49 PM, Bill White wrote:

> On Mon Oct 27 2008 at 16:35, Carsten Dominik  
> <dominik@science.uva.nl> wrote:
>
>> On Oct 27, 2008, at 10:17 PM, Bill White wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon Oct 27 2008 at 13:11, "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Bill,
>>>>>
>>>>> to add links to autgoing mails automatically, adding a link to
>>>>> such a
>>>>> mail once should be enough, to add the right funciton to your
>>>>> 'mail-send-hook' (?? don't no which hook really...) since it's
>>>>> just a
>>>>> question of the link format.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It seems like this could get complicated as it depends on how/where
>>>> you store your sent messages.  Also, it looks like org-mode links
>>>> rely
>>>> on the gnus group, and article id to link back to an article, so
>>>> somehow you would need a hook which runs after the sent article has
>>>> been saved into a group and given an ID.
>>>
>>> Ah ha!  Something was bugging me about org's links to gnus messages.
>>
>> Can Gnus in general find messages by message-id?  Then it would be
>> nice if we could do that.  I believe the mhe interface does use
>> message-id already, maybe others too.
>
> I know this link, generated by remember, works from planner:
>
> [[gnus://nnml:wri.d-wpt/<49062748.8030208@wolfram.com>][E-Mail from  
> Soandso]]
>
> And this, generated from Sacha's code, also works from planner:
>
> [[gnus://nnml:archive.2008-10/<87skqhivq8.fsf@wolfram.com>][Eric  
> Schulte: Re: %5BOrgmode%5D keeping track of sent emails in org?]]
>
> (I store this month's outgoing mail in ~/Mail/archive/2008-10)
>
>
> I don't know how planner's gnus:// link works, though.

This looks to me that the link needs to know in which group the  
message is located, so such links will probably get broken when you  
move the message.  So when you create the link in a group, then move  
it to a different group or folder, does the link then still work?

- Carsten