Can I create a link to a specific email message in Outlook?
Problem
I use Outlook as my email client at work, but I don't want to use it to manage my tasks and todos. (Instead I use plain text files and Emacs org-mode.) Since many todo items start out as mails in my inbox, I often need to reference these mails. Is there some clever way to create a link (a URL) that opens a specific email in Outlook when clicked?
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You can do this with a little bit of code in Outlook and a little bit of code in Emacs. First, if you're using Outlook 2007 you'll need to enable Outlook URLs with a registry addition. Instructions and the registry file can be found here courtesy of David Tan. Next, this macro can be added to Outlook and will get the GUID of the current email message, create a Org-Mode link and deposit it into the clipboard. As koushik noted in the comments, the part can be expanded to differentiate between dif…
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