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From: Ethan Ligon <ligon@are.berkeley.edu>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Email from org?
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:29:35 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20100729T003507-420@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8739v6dlss.fsf@gmail.com

Eric Schulte <schulte.eric <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> See http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-mime.php for information on
> exporting Org-mode documents to email, and on using Org-mode syntax to
> compose email.
> 

Thanks for the suggestions regarding org-mime.  I can see that it
would be very useful for composing complicated email.  But I have what
I think is actually a much simpler problem: *sending* email from an
org-file. 

I have in mind something like:

#+TYP_TODO: EMAIL SENT WAITING | DONE

* Broadcasting project
** EMAIL What is the optimal frequency?
   :PROPERTIES:
   :To:       kenneth@example.com
   :END:
   Dear Ken-

   Could you please let me know when you've made progress on computing
   the optimal frequency?

   Thanks,
   -Ethan

Then a transition in workflow state from EMAIL to WAITING would cause
(perhaps via org-mime) the construction of an email

  From: ligon@are.berkeley.edu
  To: kenneth@example.com
  Subject: What is the optimal frequency?
  Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:36:14 -0700

  Dear Ken-

  Could you please let me know when you've made progress on computing
  the optimal frequency?

  Thanks,
  -Ethan

which would then be automagically fed into an SMTP client for
delivery.  Critically, one would *not* need to interrupt one's work
flow in order to go mess around with a mail client; a simple \C-c\C-t
or similar would send the email on its way.

Or very possibly there's an obvious way to accomplish a similar end
that hasn't occurred to me.  Maybe the act of composing an email in a
mail buffer could also format and re-file the message in an org-file,
leading to a workflow similar to what one gets with org-capture?

Any further thoughts welcome!

Thanks,
-Ethan

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-28 23:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-26 19:13 Email from org? Ethan Ligon
2010-07-26 19:29 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-07-26 20:14 ` BKnoth
2010-07-26 20:34 ` Eric Schulte
2010-07-28 23:29   ` Ethan Ligon [this message]
2010-07-29  7:08     ` David Maus
2010-07-30 21:21     ` Eric Schulte
2010-07-31  1:25       ` Ethan Ligon
2010-08-10 15:44         ` Eric Schulte
2010-08-10 21:03           ` David Maus
2010-08-13  9:09       ` Eric S Fraga

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