Wow, that worked perfectly. Thank you!

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Eric Schulte <eric.schu...@gmx.com> wrote:

> Peter Salazar <cycleofs...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I frequently compose e-mails as subtrees of my org files. I'd like to be
> > able to e-mail the contents of these subtrees, maybe by first viewing the
> > subtree in an indirect buffer.
> >
> > My org files look like this:
> >
> > * e-mails
> >   ** note to person about blah
> >      To: per...@blah.com
> >      Subject: ADD people 7 times more likely to be creative
> >      --text follows this line--
> >
> >      Dear Person,
> >
> >      Blah blah blah.
> >
> >      Best,
> >      Peter
> >
> > I can open the subtree in an indirect buffer, but I can't e-mail the
> > contents as they appear because I get "Invalid header line."
> >
> > If I delete the org-header, I can successfully send the e-mail. But then
> I
> > need to undelete the header afterward.
> >
> > How can I send the contents of a subtree as an e-mail without first
> having
> > to delete the header?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Peter
>
> Checkout the `org-mime-subtree' subtree command.  It converts the
> current subtree to an email, pulling email headers from subtree
> properties, specifically
>
> MAIL_SUBJECT or subtree heading -> subject
> MAIL_TO -> TO
> MAIL_CC -> CC
> MAIL_BCC -> BCC
> MAIL_FMT -> determines the format of the email (e.g., org, ascii or html)
>
> so your example above would be
>
> ** note to person about blah
>    :PROPERTIES:
>   :MAIL_TO:  per...@blah.com
>   :MAIL_SUBJECT: ADD people 7 times more likely to be creative
>   :END:
>    Dear Person,
>
>   Blah blah blah.
>
>   Best,
>   Peter
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Eric Schulte
> http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
>

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