Re: email ui choices?

[Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 7:27 AM, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
wrote:

> Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 6:51 AM, Eric Abrahamsen <
> eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>
> I'll include a shameless-plug-cum-general-recommendation: I use
> org-attach a lot to keep files associated with Org headings, and to me
> this feels like a natural use-case for that.
>

Yes, it sounds like a pretty good idea.  I am trying to figure out a couple
of attachment issues; to start with, I was hoping to set a dnd-handler,
anmd have drag-and-dropping local files create an attachment. I am close,
but the actual attachment isn't being created. This is what I have:

(setq dnd-protocol-alist
      `(("^\\(file\\)://" . mwp-file-dnd) ,@dnd-protocol-alist))

(defun mwp-file-dnd (uri action)
  (cond ((eq major-mode 'org-mode)
         ;; (message uri)
         (insert "[[%s][Description Property")
         (org-attach-attach uri nil "lns" ) ;; this appears to work, but
doesn't create the link
         )
        (t
         (let ((dnd-protocol-alist
                (rassq-delete-all
                 'mwp-file-dnd
                 (copy-alist dnd-protocol-alist))))
           (dnd-handle-one-url nil action uri)))
        ))


> I wrote a library called Gnorb (in the package manager) that provides
> some glue-code between Gnus and Org (and BBDB), and there are a few
> hooks in there that might be useful to you.
>
> It sounds like you're digesting quite a bit all at once, so you probably
> don't want to install all of Gnorb. If you're interested in some of the
> bits, I might be able to peel those off into separate functions:
> specifically, taking files from the org-attach directory and attaching
> them to outgoing emails being sent from an Org heading. I can't promise
> I could do it cleanly, but I'd be happy to look into it.
>

If you could do that, that would be just super.  Right now my lone mailing
function sends me to message-mode:

  (defun mime-send-mail ()
    "org-mime-subtree and HTMLize"
    (interactive)
    (org-mark-subtree)
    (let ((subject  (nth 4 (org-heading-components))))
      (org-mime-subtree)
      (insert "\nBest,\nMP.\n")
      (org-mime-htmlize)
      (command-execute 'mml-attach-file)
      (message-goto-to)
      )
    )

mml-attach-file asks a whole bunch of questions about mime type, etc.  I
don't know how to fill those values in automatically, but I guess it would
be, in pseudo code

(dolist (thisfile org-attach-all-attachments) (mml-attach-file thisfile
FILL IN OTHER ARGUMENTS)

If you have something like that in gnorb that'd be awesome.  Thanks once
again,
Matt

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