Re: [Orgmode] [CONTRIB?] using orgmode to send html mail?

[Dan Davison]

Hi Eric,

Thanks a lot for this, I think I'll use it quite a bit.

This may be specific to my setup, but in case this is useful to others,
as a gnus user I had to do

(setq mail-user-agent 'message-user-agent)

Without altering this --- i.e. with mail-user-agent set to the default
value of 'sendmail-user-agent --- org-mime-org-buffer-htmlize puts the
outgoing message in mail-mode (a.o.t. message-mode). For me, that meant
that the resulting outgoing email was rendered verbatim in gmail,
whereas from message-mode it is fine. The exact contents of outgoing
emails are below.

I noticed one small bug, but perhaps it's an org-mode bug? When I use
org-mime-org-buffer-htmlize on this

,----
| *** Tasks
|     - [ ] Check Popen.returncode of python system calls
`----

I get the following, which renders as a checkbox with an X, whereas my
checkbox was empty.

,----
|
|

|
• | [X] Check Popen.returncode of python system calls
  |
|

|
`----

Comparison of outgoing mail from mail-mode and message-mode:

With an org buffer containing (as active region or not)

,----
| * heading
|   text
`----

Here is what the outgoing email (i.e. the stdin received by
sendmail-program) looks like from mail-mode (mail formed by
org-mime-org-buffer-htmlize)

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
To: address@hidden
Subject: test16

heading

text

--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


And here is what the outgoing email looks like from message-mode (exact
same content, but pasted from mail-mode into message-mode).

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
From: Dan Davison <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Subject: test16
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:26:23 -0400
Message-ID: <address@hidden>
User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=-=-="

--=-=-=

* heading
  text

--=-=-=
Content-Type: text/html

<div id="outline-container-1" class="outline-2">
<h2 id="sec-1">heading </h2>
<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-1">

<p>text
</p></div>
</div>

--=-=-=--
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Dan

"Eric Schulte" <address@hidden> writes:

> 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" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Dan Davison <address@hidden> 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
>
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