On 31 Jan 2019, at 16:37, John Cooper wrote:
Florian Heidenreich wrote (at 2:23 on 31 Jan 2019):
I’m often keeping track of specific conversations by creating a
link to a specific email in another program by dragging the email to
this program.
This is meant as a general question, and not something for Florian
alone to answer: would you describe a situation in which you use this
kind of link?
As it happens, in thirty years of using email, I've never used this
particular function, and I'm wondering about its possibilities.
There would seem to be certain limitations. For example, you wouldn't
share this link with anyone else, because they wouldn't be able to
resolve it. The target message would also have to be retained on the
local system somewhere, right? Would the link continue to work even if
the message is in the Trash folder?
Given that the links are effectively unsharable, the only use I can
think of offhand would be in lists or databases. But MailMate's smart
folders are so flexible that I can't think of why you wouldn't just
set one up in MailMate that would work just as well as an external
program. Thoughts?
Well, here is an example: I take advantage of such links coupling
ToDoIst with MM. I get many emails that require me to do sth, often at
some point in the future. Using the bundle that is available in MM, I
schedule tasks in ToDoIst that contain a link to the email. When the
tasks pops for a given day, I can click the link to quickly fetch the
details of what I need to do or to send a reply that the task is done.
Really, really handy. Yes, those links work only locally. They work for
any mailbox as far as I can tell.
Robert
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