Re: Gnus: How to reference an article from a gmane mailing list

["H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>]

Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, 8 Dec 2021 at 14:23, Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > Oh wait!  What about Gmail or other mail readers of Emacs, do they have
>> > this functionality as well?
>>
>> Can't tell you 😕 I'd be very (though pleasantly) surprised if GMail
>> could work with Message IDs; as for other mail readers, I just don't
>> know.
>
> Gmail can search by Message-ID, although the syntax is somewhat hard
> to remember and it’s not exposed in the UI, you have to dig into help
> to find it. The keyword is:
>
> rfc822msgid:874k7j7e8u.fsf@gmail.com
>
> On the other hand, forward lookup is straightforward: on a message,
> clicking the ‘More’ menu and selecting ‘Show original’ opens the
> message source form in a new tab, with the Message-ID right there on
> the top, you don’t even have to scan the headers to look for it.
>
>
> Thunderbird lets you search by any headers. You press Ctrl+Shift+F to
> open the search dialog, then, in the ‘Match all of the following’
> section, you have to pull down the field selector and, if Message-ID
> is not there (by default), select Customize…, enter Message-ID and
> click Add. This is a one-time setup, after that, it should be listed
> in the pulldown.
>
> To look up a message’s Message-ID header, you open its source (Ctrl+U)
> and look for the header.

I was about to resign to search the http links but now you showed that
showing a message IDs is also helpful for popular MUAs, maybe also for
Rmail?

Thanks a lot

       Dieter
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H. Dieter Wilhelm
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