Add-ons
About this Add-on
A Thunderbird extension to open org-protocol URLs.
Instructions
Set up org-protocol:
https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-protocol.html
Add following lines to your .emacs file:
Go to the options page and set up the options as follows:
template (Custom String): "m"
url (Message ID)
title (Message Subject)
Now when you click on the "To Org" button above the e-mail you want to send to emacs via org-protocol, it will trigger following URL:
org-protocol://capture?template=m&url=MESSAGE_ID&title=MESSAGE_SUBJECT
and create following task in `/path/to/orgmode/Mail.org`:
Instructions
Set up org-protocol:
https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-protocol.html
Add following lines to your .emacs file:
(setq org-capture-templates
'(("m" "mail" entry (file+headline "/path/to/orgmode/Mail.org" "Tasks")
"* TODO [[message:<%:link>][Mail]] %:description %i %?
:PROPERTIES:
:CAPTURED: %U
:END:
" :immediate-finish t)
))
Go to the options page and set up the options as follows:
template (Custom String): "m"
url (Message ID)
title (Message Subject)
Now when you click on the "To Org" button above the e-mail you want to send to emacs via org-protocol, it will trigger following URL:
org-protocol://capture?template=m&url=MESSAGE_ID&title=MESSAGE_SUBJECT
and create following task in `/path/to/orgmode/Mail.org`:
** TODO [[message:<MESSAGE_ID>][Mail]] MESSAGE_SUBJECT
:PROPERTIES:
:CAPTURED: [2026-03-23 Mon 20:00]
:END:
