Re: Email from org?

[Ethan Ligon <ligon@are.berkeley.edu>]

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