Re: Getting message details from message-sent-hook

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On 29 May 2003, kruhft@hotmail.com wrote:
> Bill White <billw@wolfram.com> writes:
> 
>> Now, can some function grab the message id and jump to that
>> article?  Perhaps using Ted's registry stuff?
> 
> I was thinking that there would be something available to select a
> message-id but I haven't gotten around to looking for it.  It just
> seemed like a good thing to have in there because I'm sure someone
> will write that functionality someday (maybe even me if I get
> inspired :)

The registry can help:

gnus-registry-fetch-group is a compiled Lisp function in `gnus-registry'.
(gnus-registry-fetch-group ID)

Get the group of a message, based on the message ID.
Returns the first place where the trail finds a group name.

Three issues:

- the group name is currently not prefixed, so you don't know the
  server.  I'll work on that, but time has been short lately.

- the registry may be inaccurate, e.g. someone deletes a IMAP message
  outside this instance of Gnus

- there may be more than one copy of the message (and thus, multiple
  groups in the registry trail)

If anyone is interested in using the registry as a generic message-ID
locator, patches or ideas are welcome.

Ted