Aloha, I too came across this long ago. I like a 'zero inbox' and so I archive (or delete!) my gmail after reading. And indeed, when you move from INBOX to "All Mail" an org-link to INBOX will no longer function.
I use Gnus and do something rather simple and easy: (defun changegroupinemaillink (args) (setcar args (replace-regexp-in-string "gmail.com:INBOX" "gmail.com:[Gmail]/All Mail" (car args))) args ) (advice-add 'org-gnus-article-link :filter-args #'changegroupinemaillink) After this, links point to All Mail and the mail will always be found. -- Bob Newell Honolulu, Hawai`i * Via Gnus/BBDB/Org/Emacs/Linux *