From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rainer M Krug Subject: Re: Compose emails in ogr, but send them via thunderbird? Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:33:34 +0200 Message-ID: <4F7D66EE.8050307@gmail.com> References: <4F7AB055.3080601@gmail.com> <87ehs52mf0.fsf@pank.eu> <87aa2t2m2x.fsf@pank.eu> <4F7AFC5A.2020509@gmail.com> Reply-To: R.M.Krug@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34833) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFj4Y-0000Be-Nl for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 05:33:47 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFj4V-0001f3-GC for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 05:33:42 -0400 Received: from mail-bk0-f41.google.com ([209.85.214.41]:34811) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFj4U-0001ej-Uy for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 05:33:39 -0400 Received: by bkwq16 with SMTP id q16so1336008bkw.0 for ; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 02:33:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: 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: Torsten Wagner Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Rasmus -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/12 04:05, Torsten Wagner wrote: > Hi Rainer, > > Hmm interstingly I working on exact the same task.... I want to get rid of Thunderbird because > its troubling me to much, but I can't find an easy drop-in replacement. Recently, I got notmuch > running after giving up on gnus for the third or fourth time, because I never found enough time > to come into it. Unfortunately, I find the notmuch thread buffers rather confusing and would be > very happy if a little org-mode magic would move into it. > > Nevertheless notmuch allows you to write emails too. What you have to do is to set-up the smtp > server to sent your mails. That can be either a pointer to an existing smtp server (like gmail) > or a own server. A own server might be nice but requires some fiddling and hence I decided to > use msmtp [1]. It requires only a very small config file with the credentials and settings for > each smtp (email) account. Mostly what you are used to type into thunderbird too. In my emacs > init files I added > > /--------------------------------init_notmuch.el---------------------------------------/ > ;;/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ;; notmuch and smtp settings > ;;////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > > (require 'notmuch) (setq message-send-mail-function 'message-send-mail-with-sendmail) ;; we > substitute sendmail with msmtp (setq sendmail-program "/usr/bin/msmtp") ;;need to tell msmtp > which account we're using (setq message-sendmail-extra-arguments '("-a" "gmail")) ;; integrate > with org-mode (require 'org-notmuch) (require 'notmuch-address) (setq notmuch-address-command > "/home/torsten/mails/get_address.sh") (notmuch-address-message-insinuate) > /--------------------------------init-notmuch.el---------------------------------------------------/ > > get_address.sh is a little shell script which enables to access the googlemail contact list > and you will get auto completion. > > /----------------------get_address.sh-------------------------/ #!/bin/sh goobook query "$*" | > sed 's/\(.*\)\t\(.*\)\t.*/\2 \<\1\>/' | sed '/^$/d' > /---------------------get_address.sh------------------------/ > > details about this can be found on the notmuch website. > > Being in a notmuch buffer pressing 'm' opens a new buffer with a empty template in Message > mode Fill it and C-c C-C will send the mail out. It should appear in notmuch later and if you > did your filtering/tagging right you can file it under sent. From there it should be pretty > easy to link to an org-mode file. > > > Again I would like to see notmuch using more org-mode magic to get a more clean representation > of mails and esp. threads. Some more hooks like automatic linking to notmuch emails in > org-mode buffers and creating of emails directly from org-mode buffers would be nice and I > guess its rather easy to implement. (E.g., a single command to create a new mail and generating > a org-mode link to that email in notmuch, at the current position in a org-mode buffer would be > very nice). > > > Hope that helps Hi Torsten, id definitely does. I have implemented it and am playing at the moment with the "external editor" (combined with the "message-mode" and the get_address.sh script) and it looks quite nice at the moment. I think I will tackle the rest later. Cheers, Rainer > > > [1] http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/ > > On 3 April 2012 22:34, Rainer M Krug wrote: On 03/04/12 11:36, Rasmus > wrote: >>>> Rasmus writes: >>>> >>>>> ¹ http://globs.org/articles.php?pg=2&lng=en >>>> >>>> You might also be able to work something out with Keysnail, which, at least in Fx, can >>>> also call external editors (Emacs, mostly) > > Also interesting - nice. Cheers, > > Rainer > >>>> >>>> https://github.com/mooz/keysnail/wiki >>>> >>>> –Rasmus >>>> > > >> - -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. 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