Re: [Orgmode] [bug] "message" not present in default value of org-link-types

[David Maus]

Jules Bean wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 09:08:00AM +0200, David Maus wrote:
>> >Manually adding it to org-link-types makes it work correctly. For me,
>> >anyway.
>>
>> True enough.  But what is a "message:" link?  Can you give an example
>> of its usage?

>message:<address@hidden>

>or

>message://<address@hidden>

>(I'm not sure which is technically correct, they both work here)

>is a link, by message-id, to the email I'm replying to.

>My hazy memory says this URL schema originates in the first version of
>netscape which supported mail+news, it enabled you to link directly to
>a particular message (in an email folder or a newsgroup). It was also
>how netscape "implemented" the In-Reply-To and References headers,
>which were clickable and took you to the messages concerned.

>I can't substantiate that memory, though. The only references I find
>on the internet are to OSX Leopard and Apple Mail (which does happen
>to be what I'm using it with).

>Wikipedia thinks that the correct IANA form is 'mid:', but that
>doesn't actually work on my system.

Thanks for the explanation.  The message: link type is indeed not an
registered URI prefix[1], but mid: is.  Anyway, message: is added to
Org's default link types.

Thanks for reporting,
 -- David

[1] http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes.html
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