On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 10:34:26PM +0800, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > Peter Davis <[email protected]> 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.
Thanks, Eric! I'll give it a try. > > 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. Thanks. I suppose I can use gnus to send a message, even if I'm not using it to read mail. > > 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! Great! Thank you. -pd -- ---- Peter Davis The Tech Curmudgeon www.techcurmudgeon.com
