Variable: org-email-link-description-format

org-email-link-description-format is an alias and customizable for org-link-email-description-format, defined in org-compat.el.gz.

This variable is obsolete since 9.3; use org-link-email-description-format instead.

Value

"Email %c: %s"

Documentation

Format of the description part of a link to an email or Usenet message.

The following %-escapes will be replaced by corresponding information:

%F full "From" field
%f name, taken from "From" field, address if no name
%T full "To" field
%t first name in "To" field, address if no name
%c correspondent. Usually "from NAME", but if you sent it yourself, it
     will be "to NAME". See also the variable org-from-is-user-regexp.
%s subject
%d date
%m message-id.

You may use normal field width specification between the % and the letter. This is for example useful to limit the length of the subject.

Examples: "%f on: %.30s", "Email from %f", "Email %c"

Aliases

org-email-link-description-format (obsolete since 9.3)