Christoph <rho...@googlemail.com> writes: > the thunderbird addons thunderlink and cb_thunderlink do not work > anymore for thunderbird 138.
Thanks for reporting! I hope you and other Thunderbird users can help update the FAQ 'Can I create links to Thunderbirds emails' on Worg -- patches welcome: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#mid-url-handler An earlier discussion on the mailing list started here: https://list.orgmode.org/939b62c1-34ee-051e-405a-328b841d3...@gmail.com/ I'm copying Bruno Barbier and Max Nikulin, who contributed to that discussion and the FAQ update about cb_thunderlink. > There is, however, an alternative; cf. > here: > > https://www.reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comments/pb6sif/creating_a_link_to_an_email_in_thunderbird/ > > It requires no thunderbird add-on which is an additional benefit but > simply works by calling thunderbird with the commandline parameter > > mid:my_message_id > > where my_message_id is the unique id that thunderbird gives to each > mail (without the angle brackets!). This is discussed in the FAQ. The FAQ says an add-on is needed to get the message-ID, otherwise the `last resort' is opening the message source with CTRL+U. However, from the Reddit thread I see that Message-ID can be added as a custom message header in the Thunderbird view and simply copied by right-click, and there's also an add-on (still working?) to add a button to easily copy it. https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/copy-message-id/ The FAQ mentions cb_thunderlink's ability to generate Org bracket links directly from a template. That's lost, then. > So, a simple registration for following the link could look like this > (sry for that, but my knowledge of Elisp is still very rudimentary, > even for that much I needed AI help; I'd be grateful for any > improvement of the code): > > (org-link-set-parameters "thunderblink" > :follow #'thunderblink-open) > > (defun thunderblink-open (path _) > "Open thunderbird with mail-id indicated in path. Remove angle > brackets if present" > (defun thunderblink-open (path _) > (let ((clean-path (replace-regexp-in-string "[<>]" "" path))) > (start-process "thunderbird" nil "thunderbird" (concat "mid:" > clean-path)))) At the end of the Reddit thread, someone has posted a fuller link definition that also covers completion (with ido, from the kill ring) and export: https://github.com/lordnik22/ol-thunderbird/blob/main/ol-thunderbird.el The Worg FAQ discusses a different approach: defining a `mid' link type with a follow function that uses browse-url instead of invoking thunderbird from the shell. There are further notes on making this work by setting up scheme handlers depending on operating system. https://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#mid-url-handler https://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#mailto-links The FAQ advice may feel overwhelming to a Thunderbird user who's new to Org. It would be good if we could clearly outline one relatively simple approach before getting too technical about other options. Yours, Christian
