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I have been using org-mode for a while and started using mu and mu4e recently.

The following capture template stores a link from a "normal" file but not from a mu4e message:

(setq org-capture-templates
  '(("f" "Todo (linked to file)" entry (file+headline "~/org/gtd.org" "project")
 "* TODO %?\n%a"))
  )

In a buffer with a mu4e message, I do M-x org-store-link and get this message in the minibuffer:

No method for storing a link from this buffer`.

The author of this thread reported that

The link (%a) gets initialized,

and the only other thread I found is two years old and mentions that the problem went away with version 0.9.18 of mu.

I am running Org mode version 9.1.9 and mu version 1.0.

How can I get the link to work?

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  • not sure about the template but M-x org-store-link from the body of the email message does store a link that can be copied into org with 'M-x org-insert-link` and opened with follow-link or C-c C-o. I'll look further.
    – manandearth
    Dec 7, 2018 at 19:08
  • and this is for a hyperlink and not for a capture ..by the way.
    – manandearth
    Dec 7, 2018 at 19:16
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    I guess you need (require 'org-mu4e) somewhere in your init
    – andrej
    Dec 7, 2018 at 20:52

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This is an example that works for me and that I have somewhere from the mu4e-pages

(require 'org-mu4e)

(setq org-capture-templates
   '(("T" "todo with link" entry (file "~/org/inbox.org")
      "* TODO %i%? \n:PROPERTIES: \n:CREATED: %U \n:END: \n %a\n")
     ("p" "Process" entry (file+headline "~/org/gtd.org" "Tasks")
      "* TODO [#A] Process mail from %:fromname on %:subject\nSCHEDULED:%t\nDEADLINE: %(org-insert-time-stamp (org-read-date nil t \"+2d\"))\n:PROPERTIES:\n:CREATED: %U\n:END:\n %a" :immediate-finish t :prepend t)))

For an explanation see https://orgmode.org/manual/Adding-hyperlink-types.html and note that in org-mu4e among other things different kinds of hyperlink types for mu4e are defined.

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    (require 'org-mu4e) is all I needed to make the capture template work. Thanks!
    – miguelmorin
    Dec 10, 2018 at 9:41
  • I am very interested in this portion of this template %(org-insert-time-stamp (org-read-date nil t \"+2d\")) Is there any way to offset the deadline by two days but relative to the date when the email was received (rather than the current date/time)? Thanks in advance
    – Ajned
    Jul 17, 2021 at 6:36
  • You can use one org-read to read the date from your mail an another to increment the day %(org-insert-time-stamp (org-read-date nil t \"++2d\" nil (org-read-date nil t \"%:date\")))
    – andrej
    Jul 19, 2021 at 10:03
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    @andrej Thanks, and thank you for answering my own related question :-)
    – Ajned
    Jul 19, 2021 at 18:53

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