For instance, the steps involved require that you click into the email, view the original source of the email, copy the rfc822msgid, paste it into a crafted search and finally share that URL.īecause this is so clunky, I created a bookmarklet to automate this so it only requires two clicks! Bookmarklets are Javascript commands that can be run from your bookmark bar. One problem with using this technique is it’s tedious extracting this information from Gmail. If you scroll all the way to the bottom of this list of Gmail search filters, rfc822msgid shows up as an option.įor instance, here’s a msgid for one of my that same email entered as a search query in Gmail:Īutomating the Acquisition of rfc822msgid Once you determine what the rfc822msgid value is, you can search your inbox for any emails with that ID. This is likely what Gmail uses to keep emails threaded together.Įach email you send and receive has a rfc822msgid attached to it. Msgid or message ID is presumably a unique identifier for emails. RFC 822 is an old email standard dating back to the 1980s which defined how emails should be structured. The key piece of information that solves this issue is something in Gmail called rfc822msgid. When they click the link, they should be able to view the email thread.
After that, you can then share this link with anyone on the email thread. After that, click the bookmark a second time to open a link straight to the email you’d like to link to.
This will open the “original message” window. Once you’ve added the link above to your bookmark bar, simply visit a specific email within Gmail and click the bookmark. I recommend using Chrome or Firefox as both make it easy to drag the link. The Solutionĭrag the link below to your bookmark bar in your preferred browser. Additionally, an email can be linked to but that link will only work for the person who copied it from their address bar. To me, it seemed like a simple problem to fix, as Gmail already supports linking to emails in the tasks sidebar. Usually what happens in these situations is one person will say “find the email with the subject line: fw: re: project update” and then everyone will attempt to find that email on their computer to varying degrees of success.
Conversations within our project management software (outside of the Google ecosystem) where a specific email is referenced.Google docs for collaboration where a specific email is referenced.Google calendar invites where we want attendees to review topics outlined in an email.Some examples of the issues we’ve ran into when needing to share a Gmail link are: It’s a great tool, but a common problem we run into is referencing and sharing links to email threads with each other outside of Gmail. (Well, at least this one.) BackstoryĪt Envano, we use Google’s G Suite platform for all of our needs such as scheduling meetings, reading emails and collaborating on documents. But what if there was a way to share emails in Gmail with just a link? Well, I’ve discovered a solution that may solve all your problems. How much time have you wasted digging through your inbox to find an email? I bet the answer is a lot.