Re: gnorb can't find moved messages

[Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net>]

This problem also arose for me when I very first started to
use Gnorb, and also surprised me as I thought the registry
would act as a sort of invariant pointer. However, it didn't.

It came up because I use gmail as my primary service and use
gnus to access with IMAP (with no local storage). Gmail has a
funny sort of structure where everything appears in the "All
Mail" folder as well as possibly in one or more individual
folders (really tags, but it works like folders).

Generally what I do is "archive" my "inbox" mail when I'm done
with it. All that does is remove the "inbox" tag, leaving the
"All Mail" tag in place. But if I had marked the mail for
tracking with Gnorb while in the inbox, which seems the normal
way to do things (act on the mail before archiving), the
org-mode link would be set to "inbox". After archiving, the
link would be broken.

So, I, um "solved" this by writing advice that would catch any
attempt to create a Gmail inbox link and change it to a Gmail
All Mail link. Then the mail is always found and the link is
always valid.

Talk about crude and brute force! But it's actually a fairly
general solution. I think I may have actually had the chutzpah
to post the code on my website, but I'm hoping I'm wrong about
that.

Aloha from Hawai`i nei,

-- 
Bob Newell
Honolulu, Hawai`i
* Via Gnus/BBDB/Org/Emacs/Linux *