On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 6:51 AM, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
wrote:

> Juergen Christoffel <jc.org14@cynix.net> writes:
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> I wonder if it's even necessary to have *any* sort of MUA set up in
> Emacs, if all you're doing is sending email? Many email programs paper
> over the distinction between sending and receiving/reading email, but I
> think the Emacs-based tools preserve that distinction pretty well.
>

I'm wondering that too now!

>
> Message-mode is built in, and I use it in conjunction with the msmtp
> program, like so:
>
> (setq message-send-mail-function 'message-send-mail-with-sendmail)
> (setq sendmail-program "msmtp")
>

thank you for the pointer to msmtp

>
> Check the docstring for the *variable* `message-send-mail-function', and
> that should get you started. If you're only using a single account for
> sending, that should be significantly simpler. Look at
> `user-mail-address' and all that.
>
> Then just call `compose-mail'!
>
> To answer the original question, the org-mime library in Org's
> contrib/lisp directory is probably what you want for htmlizing buffers
> and sending them as email.
>
>
I've made some progress on this but it's not quite perfect.  I have this
function:
(defun mime-send-mail ()
"org-mime-subtree and HTMLize"
(interactive)
(org-mark-subtree)
;; wish I could get the PARENT headline here!
;; then figure out how to set subject to that headline!
(let ((subject  (nth 4 (org-heading-components))))
  (org-mime-subtree)
  (insert "\nBest,\nMP.\n")
  (org-mime-htmlize) ;; had to redefine so it could be called
non-interactively
  (command-execute 'mml-attach-file)
  (message-goto-to))
)

I've been thinking about it, and I would love to just have a link to the
student paper within org itself, and have the attachment added
automatically after org-mime-htmlize runs.  I'm not sure exactly how to do
that but if I figure it out I will let the group know.  I vaguely recall
I've seen other people describe such systems so I would appreciate guidance
if it's available.

Thanks again!
m



> Hope that helps,
> Eric
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