Re: How to link to specific message in a specific account (by Permalink URL)

[Jason Edge]

+1 -- I'm having this problem too - I save lots of links to emails (primarily in Evernote), and all worked great until I started using multiple accounts. Thanks for being the first to articulate the problem Steven.

[Jay Shoemaker]

+1 to this too...

I would really like to create an "application shortcut" for each one of my specific gmail accounts so that I can keep things in order. 

• Having gmail in a tab on my browser gets in the way
• I would like to have a new window, specific to gmail, with a specific icon for the account I'm trying to access. 
• I think most of the pieces are here (application specific shortcuts work great) but I now need a way to point the shortcut directly to an account. 

Jay

On Thursday, March 7, 2013 5:56:43 PM UTC-5, Steven Ruppert wrote:

Hi,

Before the multiple signin feature, there were lots of blog posts written about being able to permalink to a specific message by copying the URL:

http://www.labnol.org/internet/gmail-emails-have-permanent-web-address/6811/
http://email.about.com/od/gmailtips/qt/et020606.htm

But the multiple signin feature now distinguishes between the three possible accounts with just an index, which is dependent on the order in which you signed into them:

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/2/

Thus, gmail URLs only work if the index stays the same. If the index is different, the permalink silently fails. e.g.:

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#all/13b3e6531c3498f3

Will load the inbox unless the message with that ID actually exists for whatever account exists at "u/1". If I switch computers, or log in in a different order, all the permalinks break.

Is there any way to link to a specific message for a specific account?

Something like this would be ideal:

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/m...@example.com/#all/13b3e6531c3498f3

Which would either redirect to the correct multiple sign-in URL ("u/0", "u/1", "u/2") if you are signed into "m...@example.com", or redirect to a login page for that account.

Thanks,
Steven