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Jason F. McBrayer wrote:
> Manish <mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com> writes:
>
>   
>> I have to use Office and envy folks that can link to their emails
>> (Gnus, VM etc.) and contacts (bbdb) from Org mode.  So I was looking
>> around and found that links to Outlook items (emails, meetings,
>> contacts etc.)  of the form "Outlook:<GUID>" can be stored and opened
>> from other applications.  The links can be created (copied to
>> clipboard) using "Outlook Linker" utility as described in [1].
>>     
>
> (w32-shell-execute "open" "outlook:blahblah") should do what you need.
> The tricky part is getting the GUID into Emacs (requires gratis but
> proprietary utility you link to).
>
>   

Does anyone know if this type of linking is possible with Thunderbird?  
Some Googling hasn't turned up anything, so maybe the solution is to 
switch to GNUs.  I like to use org-mode as my central repository of 
information, and linking to email messages would really round out that 
functionality.