Re: Link from orgmode file to E-Mail (using kmail or notmuch)

[AW]

Am Donnerstag, 26. Januar 2023, 13:18:49 CET schrieb Jean Louis:
> * AW <alexander.willand@t-online.de> [2023-01-26 13:00]:
> > This is about a maildirs of kmail on my local machine. The E-Mails are
> > being indexed by akonadi on the side of kde-pim. But referring to a
> > certain E-Mail from orgmode with a kind of link fails, because I'd need
> > to got to the maildir and search for the specific E-Mail. kde-pim does
> > not offer an easy way to extract that or the message-ID.
> 
> How many Maildirs do you have?

One main, a hundred submaildirs.

> 
> and what does program:
> 
> akonadi_maildir_resource does?
> 
> Should it find e-mail?

Akonadi is a part of kde-pim.

> Without Akonadi:
> ----------------
> 
> Solution may be simple without akonadi and external software.
> 
> It would be to provide main Maildir, then for program to find
> submaildirs, and to find Message ID in every e-mail, and record it,
> once per day, of course with e-mail file or folder location plus
> Message ID. This is simple program and can be done in shell or Emacs
> Lisp, collecting all Message IDs efficiently from every Maildir.
> 
> This program thus can be universal program, and then function can
> decide how to open e-mail, and it is just fine opening e-mail in Emacs
> as well.
> 
> Same program could be used to find e-mails by name or sender, or
> recipient.
Yes, that's what I'm doing with notmuch, thanks to the hint that ol-notmuch 
provides notmuch-search with message-ID. So far, my issue is solved. 

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Regards,

Alexander