Re: Compose emails in ogr, but send them via thunderbird?

[Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com>]

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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 <r.m.krug@gmail.com> wrote: On 03/04/12 11:36, Rasmus
> wrote:
>>>> Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> 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
>>>> 
> 
> 
>> 

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