Create an URL to an email

Feature request
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Hello,

Would it be possible to create a (local) URL to a given email?

Like in MyLifeOrganized, where I can create a link to a task like:
mlo://xxx?{task ID}

I am not asking for anything fancy, just a right click on an email, “create URL” and get a link like
emclient://{email ID}

Which is able to open emClient and get focus on the given email.

This could be used in all other applications/lists, eliminating the need to implement integrations separately.

Now, I have to save emails as .eml files and link to these files but it is so lame and time consuming.

Best regards,
Sandor Szenasi

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I need this to link to a specific email in emclient (communicating with protonmail bridge) from Todoist desktop. I’m not sure Todoist desktop will allow an alternative url handler, but having this would allow me to then put pressure on the Todoist side.

Having this makes it possible to navigate from Todoist project tasks to the related email and email folder for next actions.

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Would it be possible to create a (local) URL to a given email?

Like in MyLifeOrganized, where I can create a link to a task like:
mlo://xxx?{task ID}

That wouldn’t normal work just sharing a url to a given email with an email client, as there is no eg: share options to allow a private or public share on the mail folder in the client.

What you could do though to share an email or group of emails via URL in a message is to eg: First create a folder on your cloud drive such as Google drive, One Drive, Dropbox etc, and then export the email/s you want shared from eM Client to .eml message files.

Next export the messages in eM Client to .eml via either dragging messages directly to you cloud drive folder, or drag the messages to you desktop and then to your cloud drive folder, or exporting them via “Menu / File / Export” and choose .eml and select your cloud drive folder.

Then once you have the .eml message files in your cloud drive folder, then next “share that cloud drive folder with the permissions you want” whether private share or anyone with the url share or public share etc, and then copy the cloud drive folder URL / .eml message link for that email or emails, and paste that in a message.

You could also paste the url of the actual cloud drive folder itself rather than just the individual messages, if you have alot of emails to share privately or publicly and don’t want to just share individual specific messages.

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I mean a quite simpler solution, we don’t need sharing accross multiple users/devices.

I have MyLifeOrganized in my computer and emClient in the same computer. I simply want a local link that works only in the same computer.

A link in MLO like mlo://xxx?{task ID}, when I click on it, it opens MLO and shows the given task.

We need a similar in emClient, like emclient://{emailID} which opens emClient and selects the given email. That’s all.