From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric Schulte" Subject: Re: [CONTRIB?] using orgmode to send html mail? Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:39:04 -0600 Message-ID: <87aatizcef.fsf@gmail.com> References: <878w9krtyn.wl%dmaus@ictsoc.de> <871vfa24qo.fsf@gmail.com> <87pr2uww2d.fsf@columbia.edu> <87tys5zrwm.fsf@gmail.com> <87sk7pzk02.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> <87tys5r3q6.fsf@gmail.com> <87ocid7cuj.wl%dmaus@ictsoc.de> <874ok5qxp9.fsf@gmail.com> <87vdckksnj.wl%dmaus@ictsoc.de> <874ok33zje.fsf@gmail.com> <87zl1vf4ru.wl%dmaus@ictsoc.de> <874ok311t9.fsf@gmail.com> <87y6h85pid.fsf_-_@gmail.com> <87fx3g1cld.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> <87eij05had.fsf@gmail.com> <878w98w4sz.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> <87sk7f8d6x.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nyf1l-0001Cb-Qj for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:39:13 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60662 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nyf1k-0001Bh-1B for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:39:13 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nyf1h-0005kG-Qk for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:39:11 -0400 Received: from mail-yx0-f204.google.com ([209.85.210.204]:50543) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nyf1h-0005k9-Nf for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:39:09 -0400 Received: by yxe42 with SMTP id 42so2179690yxe.24 for ; Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:39:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87sk7f8d6x.fsf@gmail.com> (Eric Schulte's message of "Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:22:46 -0600") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Dan Davison Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi, It is now possible to send HTML mail directly form an org-mode buffer. Calling `org-mime-org-buffer-htmlize' (could probably use a better name) from inside of an org-mode buffer will use `org-export-as-html' to generate HTML of the buffer (respecting regions and subtree narrowing), and will then package the resulting HTML with all linked images into a message buffer. As usual thanks to Carsten's thoughtfully organized functions and control variables this was surprisingly easy to implement. Cheers -- Eric The code is still up at http://github.com/eschulte/org-mime "Eric Schulte" writes: > Dan Davison writes: > > [...] > >> >> As I understand it the code you've written is designed to be called in a >> message-mode buffer with orgstruct-mode in force. Would it make sense to >> also include in your package a complementary function, that one calls in >> an org-mode buffer? I envisage this generating the HTML, forming the >> multipart email contents, and then saving it to the kill ring, so that >> it can be pasted into an email. >> >> This function would have access to the directory-name and so should be >> able to resolve relative paths. Also, there might be some other >> advantages -- for example when exporting just a region or subtree, >> buffer-wide properties such as #+TITLE and #+AUTHOR are picked up by the >> org exporter and packaged into the HTML. >> >> In other words, can I use your machinery to package up the HTML >> generated by Org's C-e dispatcher into an appropriately-constructed >> email? >> > > Hi Dan, > > That sounds like a good idea, I've added it to a fledgling task list > packaged in the README at [1]. I'd say there are two options. > > 1) which you mentioned saving the entire exported content to the > kill-ring. One problem here is that everything is still text and > pastable only *before* the mime export process, which means that > linked images wouldn't resolve after pasting into the email client. > > 2) having the function generate a new mail buffer containing the > exported content. This buffer would need to have it's > `buffer-file-name' set, for images to resolve during export. I'm not > sure how this should best work. > > Thanks -- Eric > > Footnotes: > [1] http://github.com/eschulte/org-mime