From: Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Questions about mail, MIME, etc.
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 11:31:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140508153157.GA88364@pdavismbp15.iscinternal.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bnv8730t.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>
On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 10:34:26PM +0800, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> writes:
>
> > I'd love to get mail working so I could send MIME messages right from org mode. However, I have a couple of issues/questions:
> >
> > 1) I tried using org-mime <http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-mime.html>, but when I try the command org-mime-org-buffer-htmlize, I get the error:
> > Symbol's function definition is void: org-export-grab-title-from-buffer
> > I think I followed the setup described on that page. Is this meant for an older version of orgmode? (I'm running 8.2.5g)
>
> Yeah I got that error too, a while ago, and your message prompted me to
> look at it. It seems like org-mime is just a bit behind the state of
> org-export, and fixing that one dead function link is enough to make it
> work again. I've attached a patch.
Thanks, Eric! I'll give it a try.
> > 2) I actually use a number of email programs (MH, mutt, etc.), but not gnus or VM. Is there a way to get org to export the mime to a message file that I can send (as a message,
> > not as an attachment) from some other program?
>
> Generating a message buffer is pretty much hard-coded into org-mime.
> Once you're in that buffer, though, the (non-interactive) function
> mml-generate-mime will return the fully encoded mime message as a
> string -- you could save that to a file and do something else with it.
> I'm not 100% confident that's the simplest way to do that.
Thanks. I suppose I can use gnus to send a message, even if I'm not using it to read mail.
> > 3) What I'd really like is a multipart/alternative message where one part is text/plain, and looks exactly like the emacs buffer display, and the other part is text/html, and
> > looks like what org would export to html, complete with tables, images, etc.
>
> As far as I know, that's exactly what org-mime does!
Great!
Thank you.
-pd
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Peter Davis
The Tech Curmudgeon
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-08 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-08 13:31 Questions about mail, MIME, etc Peter Davis
2014-05-08 14:34 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-05-08 15:31 ` Peter Davis [this message]
2014-05-08 16:44 ` Peter Davis
2014-05-09 1:45 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-05-10 23:46 ` Peter Davis
2014-05-11 3:05 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-05-11 17:35 ` Peter Davis
2014-05-12 1:37 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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