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From: jmcbray@carcosa.net (Jason F. McBrayer)
Subject: Re: Opening links to Outlook items from Org mode (may be a FR)
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:13:01 -0400
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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).

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