Re: [O] Questions about mail, MIME, etc.

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Peter Davis <address@hidden> writes:

> I'd love to get mail working so I could send MIME messages right from org 
> mode. However, I have a couple of issues/questions:
>
>  1) I tried using org-mime 
> <http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-mime.html>, but when I try the 
> command org-mime-org-buffer-htmlize, I get the error:
>     Symbol's function definition is void: org-export-grab-title-from-buffer
>     I think I followed the setup described on that page. Is this meant for an 
> older version of orgmode? (I'm running 8.2.5g)

Yeah I got that error too, a while ago, and your message prompted me to
look at it. It seems like org-mime is just a bit behind the state of
org-export, and fixing that one dead function link is enough to make it
work again. I've attached a patch.

>  2) I actually use a number of email programs (MH, mutt, etc.), but not gnus 
> or VM. Is there a way to get org to export the mime to a message file that I 
> can send (as a message,
>     not as an attachment) from some other program?

Generating a message buffer is pretty much hard-coded into org-mime.
Once you're in that buffer, though, the (non-interactive) function
mml-generate-mime will return the fully encoded mime message as a
string -- you could save that to a file and do something else with it.
I'm not 100% confident that's the simplest way to do that.

>  3) What I'd really like is a multipart/alternative message where one part is 
> text/plain, and looks exactly like the emacs buffer display, and the other 
> part is text/html, and 
>     looks like what org would export to html, complete with tables, images, 
> etc.

As far as I know, that's exactly what org-mime does!

HTH,
Eric

>From c967afb70bd7c9039c09d7c7f22388e1eced30fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 22:32:01 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Update org-mime to current export functions

* /contrib/lisp/org-mime.el (org-mime-send-buffer):

This function was using `org-export-grab-title-from-buffer', which no
longer exists.
---
 contrib/lisp/org-mime.el | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/contrib/lisp/org-mime.el b/contrib/lisp/org-mime.el
index b0007ac..5f874d9 100644
--- a/contrib/lisp/org-mime.el
+++ b/contrib/lisp/org-mime.el
@@ -269,8 +269,10 @@ export that region, otherwise export the entire body."
 (defun org-mime-send-buffer (&optional fmt)
   (run-hooks 'org-mime-send-buffer-hook)
   (let* ((region-p (org-region-active-p))
-        (subject (org-export-grab-title-from-buffer))
-         (file (buffer-file-name (current-buffer)))
+        (file (buffer-file-name (current-buffer)))
+        (subject (if (not file) (buffer-name (buffer-base-buffer))
+                  (file-name-sans-extension
+                   (file-name-nondirectory file))))
          (body-start (or (and region-p (region-beginning))
                          (save-excursion (goto-char (point-min)))))
          (body-end (or (and region-p (region-end)) (point-max)))
-- 
1.9.2