Sébastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgw...@spammotel.com> writes: > Hi Eric, > > Eric S Fraga wrote: >> Tassilo Horn <tass...@member.fsf.org> writes: >>> this patch should do the trick. I think the issue was a malformed Date: >>> header that couldn't be converted to a timestamp. >> >> Actually, I am curious about this. What is the point of extracting the date >> in any case? It's used to store link properties but I don't understand where >> these properties can be used? I'm asking in case I'm missing a useful >> functionality I hadn't thought of... > > Well, I often (now) keep extracts of mail in my Org buffers. Via a capture > template[1], these get a TODO keyword, a SCHEDULED date (by default, set to > today), a link to the Gnus message (or http link to Gmane) and the date of the > mail. > > Why keeping the date of the original mail? Because it's interested to see, > when scanning which emails I still have to answer on, when they've been > issued -- without having to follow on the link. > > It is an indication of the age of the mail, that could serve as well for > sorting the subtrees (if I'm not wrong -- I don't use that feature but...). > > Does this answer your question?
Seb, it does indeed. Many thanks, and also for the emacs lisp code that shows how to use the extra link information. I wouldn't need to use this information in the way you do because my capture template for task creation, which is usually what I do as a result of emails, is based on a date tree... but it's still very useful to see other ways of handling the information overflow we have! Thanks again, eric -- : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 23.2.1 : using Org-mode version 7.4 (release_7.4.174.g163cd) _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
