On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Giovanni Ridolfi <giovanni.rido...@yahoo.it> wrote: > --- Mer 18/11/09, Carl Worth <cwo...@cworth.org> ha scritto: >> The idea is that maybe org-mode users would like to be able >> to reference >> email messages for todo items, etc. and that perhaps >> integrating with notmuch would make sense. > > well in Org-mode is it already possible to have links > to "mails" e.g.: > > mailto:ad...@galaxy.net Mail link > vm:folder VM folder link > vm:folder#id VM message link > vm://mys...@some.where.org/folder#id VM on remote machine > wl:folder WANDERLUST folder link > wl:folder#id WANDERLUST message link > mhe:folder MH-E folder link > mhe:folder#id MH-E message link > rmail:folder RMAIL folder link > rmail:folder#id RMAIL message link > gnus:group Gnus group link > gnus:group#id Gnus article link > (Manual: 4.3 External links)
Notmuch goes beyond what the links above can do. Having your mail indexed with notmuch is kind of like having your own local copy of gmail with its powerful search options. If integrated properly with org-mode, we could refer to one particular message using its message-id (regardless of the folder/directory it is in), we could refer to whole threads. And when new messages in the thread arrive, notmuch updates the thread automatically and you will see everything when you activate the link. Another interesting possibility would be adding support for notmuch search strings to org-mode, so that you could do something like: "notmuch:foo bar" and when you activate the link, a list of messages that contain the text would show up in a notmuch buffer. And so on. Notmuch is currently in very early stage, but I think it has the potential to become a perfect complement for org-mode. With support for full-text search in local email archives, org-mode will be even harder to beat than it is now ;). > By the way, does notmuch depend on Xapian? Yes. -- Jan _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
