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

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Apr 5, 2010, at 7:39 AM, Eric Schulte wrote:

> 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

CONTIRB?  yes, after the release.....

- Carsten

>
> "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> 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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- Carsten