Re: how to put into a journal info about the email sent

[David Edmondson <dme-zDQXUQW/Few@public.gmane.org>]

On Fri, Oct 24 2014, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> David Belohrad <david-rZamiVn3bvgfv37vnLkPlQ@public.gmane.org> writes:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> i'm using org. And I'm using notmuch (that's why I address both mailing
>> lists). Now, writing an email in everyday bussiness requires a
>> non-significant time of your workhours. So I'd like to have this event
>> in my org agenda. So any time I send some email with a given subject,
>> I'd like to 'automatically' entry the information about it into
>> e.g. sentmails.org in form of a diary entry, with appropriate tag.
>
> I do something like this in Gnorb, which I'd recommend you use except
> it's mostly Gnus specific.
>
> I do it in two parts, but you could do it in one. Basically I add a
> function to the `message-header-hook' (which ensures that all the
> message headers have been generated properly).

Does `message-generate-headers-first' not do what you want for this
specific part?

> Obviously the downside is that, without a "Gcc:" header, org can't
> actually make a real link to the message. It doesn't know where it's
> going to be. However if you know that all your sent messages can be
> reached with a link that looks like "notmuch:id#Message-id", then you
> can make that yourself in your org capture template with something like

As you suggest, know the message-id should be good enough to generate a
notmuch link, though you may have to wait for the notmuch index to be
updated for the link to be valid.