[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason F. McBrayer) writes: > Manish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I have to use Office and envy folks that can link to their emails >> (Gnus, VM etc.) and contacts (bbdb) from Org mode. So I was looking >> around and found that links to Outlook items (emails, meetings, >> contacts etc.) of the form "Outlook:<GUID>" can be stored and opened >> from other applications. The links can be created (copied to >> clipboard) using "Outlook Linker" utility as described in [1]. > > (w32-shell-execute "open" "outlook:blahblah") should do what you need. > The tricky part is getting the GUID into Emacs (requires gratis but > proprietary utility you link to).
Note: there is a better way of getting the GUID here: doesn't require you to install an extra program, just add a macro to your Outlook settings: http://mutable.net/blog/archive/2006/09/02/how_to_hyperlink_to_microsoft_outlook_messages.aspx Now I just need to teach org-mode how to use w32-shell-execute to follow those links... -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Jason F. McBrayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | If someone conquers a thousand times a thousand others in | | battle, and someone else conquers himself, the latter one | | is the greatest of all conquerors. --- The Dhammapada | _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode