On Sun, 2018-12-23 at 17:59 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2018-12-23 at 17:50 +0100, Bjoern Schiessle wrote: > > it happens regularly that I want to refer to a email in my notes, a > > text document, etc. Is there a way to generate a "link" to a mail > > in Evolution which I could copy over to my notes, which again opens > > Evolution and jumps directly to the mail on click? > > Not from within Evolution. > > > If this doesn't exists out of the box, I would be also happy for > > suggestions how I might be able to solve this with some scripting > > involved. > > Off the top of my head, I think this would be pretty hard to do. You > would have to accommodate all the different storage locations a > message could be in, both local and remote, and take account of it > possibly being moved around. There is no universal way to do this.
I suppose the “universal” way to link to messages is using a mid: URL that refers to the Message-ID in a message's header. See: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2392 Evolution currently doesn't support this, but I guess it would be possible to add it if someone is motivated enough… Soem thoughts: * I'm not sure if Evolution keeps an index of Message-IDs; if not it could take a rather long time to find the right message in a large mailbox (or multiple large ones). * Maybe some IMAP servers index & allow searching for it? -- Jan Claeys _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
