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Created April 17, 2019 20:42
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[Browser bookmarklet] To generate a permalink to a Gmail message: (1) Open the email (2) Click "Show original (3) Run bookmarklet. You can share the search query (useful for when either party is logged into more than one Gmail account) or share the browser URL. Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16827485/using-gmail-message-source-genera…
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stang commented Apr 17, 2019

Works as of 2019/04/17

javascript:window.open("https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/rfc822msgid%3A" + encodeURIComponent(document.getElementsByClassName('message_id')[0].innerHTML.slice(4, -4)), "_self");

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stang commented Jan 29, 2022

Update - new version, working as of 2022/01/29

javascript:window.location="https://gmail.com/#search/rfc822msgid:"+encodeURIComponent(window.document.body.innerHTML.match(/Message-ID: <(.*)>/)[1])+"/"+encodeURIComponent(window.location.search.toString().slice(1).split('&').filter(function(x){return x.slice(0,10) == "permmsgid="})[0].slice(10));

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