* Josh&#39;s answer seems great.<div><br></div><div>** I used to use VM in EMACS, worked great, highly recommend it--you could then use EMACS hooks like:</div><div><br></div><div><div>&quot;vm-mail-hook</div><div>List of hook functions to be run after a Mail mode composition buffer has been created to send a non specialized message, i.e. a message that is not a reply, forward, digest, etc. VM runs this hook and then runs vm-mail-mode-hook before leaving you in the Mail mode buffer.</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>--and hook those hooks (the list of hooks is 20+ long) up to creating an OrgMode document---maybe somewhat in the way Josh suggested--e.g.:</div><div><br></div><div>(add-hook &#39;vm-summary-update-hook &#39;org-capture)<br>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Alan E. Davis <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:lngndvs@gmail.com">lngndvs@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I am partial to just opening a mail buffer and writing email in Emacs.  Just that.  However, it would be great to save a copy in an org file.<br><br>An emacs FAQ suggests sending a BCC or FCC to oneself.  What I want is a copy stored in an org-mode subtree, with a convenient headline indicating the name of the recipient and the date.<br>


<br>So far, I haven&#39;t gotten my head around the idea of using BABEL, and I still like text for email.     My experiments with GNUS have not been very successful.  So far. <br><br>I apologize for the naive level of this and some of my other questions.  Though I may not be getting the maximum usefulness of all of org-mode&#39;s features, those features I do use are awesome.   Thank you.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>


<br>Alan Davis<br>
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