Re: [Evolution] Create link to a specific mail in Evolution

[Paul W Parker <pol_pak yahoo com au>]

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:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > 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.

As not doing this frequently, found using PRINT to PDF works ok,  with
the PDF able to be linked.  




> > 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.
>
> There could conceivably be an Evo-specific way, using Evo's on-disc
> cache, but a) as it's a cache it can easily disappear or be
> reorganised, and b) the link would only work on a single machine (and
> then only within the same user account on the machine).
>
> poc
>
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