>>> "EB" == Emanuel Berg writes: > Uwe Brauer wrote: >>> Maybe this is a stupid question but... from where >>> do you get the ID and group name in the first >>> place? Local files on your disk or some web >>> archive that shows it? >> >> That is done by the first function I posted, >> emacs/gnus extracts this information from the >> message header > But then you already have the message? This function is called when I am sending a message and stored in the diary. The point is, maybe in 3 weeks I want to read it again, so I visit the diary and just want to click on its ID. That is the use case