If you are one of those five people in the world who use Emacs' wanderlust for email and org-mode, then you might find this tip useful. To create TODO items from emails, use the org-capture template. Below is the template that I use
(setq org-capture-templates '(("t" "Todo" entry (file+headline "~/org/mygtd.org" "Tasks") " TODO %^{Brief Description} %^g\n%?\nAdded: %U" :prepend t) ("j" "Journal" entry (file+headline "~/dump/journal.org" "") "\n %^{topic} %T \n%i%?\n" :prepend t) ("e" "Email Todo" entry (file+headline "~/org/mygtd.org" "Tasks") "* TODO %^{Brief Description}\n%a\n%?Added: %U\n" :prepend t) ))
When you are reading an email and you want to create a TODO item from
it, just do M-x org-capture and select the Email Todo (e).