On Sun, 2018-12-23 at 22:40 +0100, Jan Claeys wrote: > 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
The Message-ID is mainly useful in debugging because it can be used to trace the flow of a message across mail servers. Although the definition describes it as a universal message *locator*, it's really more like a URI than a URL. To make it work as a link there would need to be a standard way to follow it to the message itself, which would ideally work on IMAP, POP, Exchange etc., but that doesn't exist at present. > 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? Again, this (if it even exists) would be mailstore-specific, not a universal solution. Within these limitations it could possibly be used for what the OP wants. However I think the limitations are such as to make it probably not worth investing a lot of time on. But feel free to try :-) poc _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
