Re: import mail messages like mhc?

From: Ben Alexander <bva@alexanderonline.org>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Cc: bremner@unb.ca
Subject: Re: import mail messages like mhc?
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:30:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DBE523AC-B6FC-4B4C-88C2-2E6A9A328AAB@alexanderonline.org> (raw)

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On 2008-Oct-25, at 16:39, emacs-orgmode-request@gnu.org wrote:
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> 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?

Back to org-mode:
Since I haven't gotten any further than wishing Emacs could read my  
mail, I haven't looked to see if the (org-store-link) does the right  
magic thing in Rmail and/or Gnus.  According the org-mode manual,  
there is all kinds of support for linking from your org-mode buffer  
back to the original email.  And in terms of finding the right date  
from your mail message, I think the date parsing routine that C-. (org- 
time-stamp) uses absolutely rocks.

For example, I just tried pasting the header from your email into the  
minibuffer after a 'C-.'.  Org-mode didn't recognize the date because  
of the cruft of the To: field and the Subject: field.  But within the  
minibuffer, I could hit C-p to get the the line with the date and  
*poof* like magic it found the date.  And the minibuffer shows you  
what  date it has computed.

It did have a bit more trouble finding things like 'See you next  
Monday', But since C-k C-a and C-e work in the minibuffer, you might  
be able to yank the entire message into the buffer and then kill the  
text that doesn't have the date you want.  Well, for short emails  
anyway.

-Ben

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