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

[Eric Schulte]

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