From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Davis Subject: Re: Questions about mail, MIME, etc. Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 11:31:57 -0400 Message-ID: <20140508153157.GA88364@pdavismbp15.iscinternal.com> References: <20140508133125.GA20746@pdavismbp15.iscinternal.com> <87bnv8730t.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58657) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WiQIz-00011U-RA for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 08 May 2014 11:32:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WiQIu-0000rk-VS for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 08 May 2014 11:32:17 -0400 Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:51798) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WiQIu-0000rJ-SU for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 08 May 2014 11:32:12 -0400 Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.44]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 509272175A for ; Thu, 8 May 2014 11:32:11 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87bnv8730t.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 10:34:26PM +0800, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > Peter Davis 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 , 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 -- ---- Peter Davis The Tech Curmudgeon www.techcurmudgeon.com