At Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:23:48 -0700, Erik Hetzner wrote: > > Regarding org-mode, I am going to propose to the org-mode list a mid: > link (similar to RFC 2392). It has always kind of bothered me that org > mode mail links are tied to a folder & a mail reader. > > Wouldn’t it be better if we could use: > > [[mid:m2pqvs5byz.wl%dave@boostpro.com][Email from David Abrahams: Conversation View / org-wl-sto]] > > instead? The problem I see here is that the message-id identifies the message, but not its location. A message with a given message-id could exist literally everywhere: In IMAP mailbox A, local mailbox B, on a usenet server... Or in all three places. Without the information where the message resides, Org is unable to resolve or dereference the link -- unless you introduce some mechanism to tie the mid: link to a resolving function, that in turn is tied to a user specific mailer... Even worse: Without the folder information the mid: is tied to a specific user setup (mailboxes and the like). The folder information is vital to be able to resolve the link, e.g. during export. You can define rules that translate a link to a location in your realm to a public accessible link. E.g. if the link points to a nntp folder at gmane, you can easily derive a http: link when exporting a file to html. Storing the link with mailer and folder is the right thing to do. Best, -- David -- OpenPGP... 0x99ADB83B5A4478E6 Jabber.... dmjena@jabber.org Email..... dmaus@ictsoc.de
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