sending a buffer by mail

sending a buffer by mail

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

c-x m creates an empty mail buffer, but say I have a buffer that I need to send by mail, what magic command would do the trick?

Jean-Christophe 

Re: sending a buffer by mail

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> writes:

> c-x m creates an empty mail buffer, but say I have a buffer that I need to send by mail, what magic command would do the trick?

M-x insert-buffer?

Re: sending a buffer by mail

[Mario Castelán Castro]

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On 30/08/17 18:00, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> c-x m creates an empty mail buffer, but say I have a buffer that I need to send by mail, what magic command would do the trick?
> 
> Jean-Christophe 

I do not use GNU Emacs for mail, but you can simply yank the text you
want to send in the mail buffer.

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Re: sending a buffer by mail

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On Aug 31, 2017, at 8:16, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
> 
> Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> c-x m creates an empty mail buffer, but say I have a buffer that I need to send by mail, what magic command would do the trick?
> 
> M-x insert-buffer?

No. I'm thinking more of something like "send-buffer-as-mail" so that I can do all my editing in the buffer and the command puts all that into a mail and I'm done.

Jean-Christophe 

Re: sending a buffer by mail

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> writes:

>> On Aug 31, 2017, at 8:16, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> c-x m creates an empty mail buffer, but say I have a buffer that I need to send by mail, what magic command would do the trick?
>> 
>> M-x insert-buffer?
>
> No. I'm thinking more of something like "send-buffer-as-mail" so that I can do all my editing in the buffer and the command puts all that into a mail and I'm done.

Well, that sounds like a very thin wrapper around insert-buffer:

(defun send-buffer-as-mail ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((str (buffer-string)))
    (compose-mail)
    (message-goto-body)
    (insert str)))

That's pretty much exactly what you'd get if you ran "C-x m", "M-x
insert-buffer", [choose buffer], "<RET>".

Alternately, there are a few functions that do this from Org mode, so
you can have nice structured text editing, and then email it.

Eric

Re: sending a buffer by mail

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> On Aug 31, 2017, at 8:16, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> writes:
>>> 
>>>> c-x m creates an empty mail buffer, but say I have a buffer that I need to send by mail, what magic command would do the trick?
>>> 
>>> M-x insert-buffer?
>>
>> No. I'm thinking more of something like "send-buffer-as-mail" so that I can do all my editing in the buffer and the command puts all that into a mail and I'm done.
>
> Well, that sounds like a very thin wrapper around insert-buffer:
>
> (defun send-buffer-as-mail ()
>   (interactive)
>   (let ((str (buffer-string)))
>     (compose-mail)
>     (message-goto-body)
>     (insert str)))

This will be nicer:

(defun send-buffer-as-mail ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((str (buffer-string)))
    (compose-mail)
    (save-excursion
      (message-goto-body)
      (insert str))))

Re: sending a buffer by mail

[John Mastro]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>> Well, that sounds like a very thin wrapper around insert-buffer:
>>
>> (defun send-buffer-as-mail ()
>>   (interactive)
>>   (let ((str (buffer-string)))
>>     (compose-mail)
>>     (message-goto-body)
>>     (insert str)))
>
> This will be nicer:
>
> (defun send-buffer-as-mail ()
>   (interactive)
>   (let ((str (buffer-string)))
>     (compose-mail)
>     (save-excursion
>       (message-goto-body)
>       (insert str))))

The difference is likely irrelevant, but you can still use
`insert-buffer' rather than consing a string of the buffer's contents:

(defun send-buffer-as-mail ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((buf (current-buffer)))
    (compose-mail)
    (save-excursion
      (message-goto-body)
      (insert-buffer buf))))

Re: sending a buffer by mail

[Eric Abrahamsen]

John Mastro <john.b.mastro@gmail.com> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>>> Well, that sounds like a very thin wrapper around insert-buffer:
>>>
>>> (defun send-buffer-as-mail ()
>>>   (interactive)
>>>   (let ((str (buffer-string)))
>>>     (compose-mail)
>>>     (message-goto-body)
>>>     (insert str)))
>>
>> This will be nicer:
>>
>> (defun send-buffer-as-mail ()
>>   (interactive)
>>   (let ((str (buffer-string)))
>>     (compose-mail)
>>     (save-excursion
>>       (message-goto-body)
>>       (insert str))))
>
> The difference is likely irrelevant, but you can still use
> `insert-buffer' rather than consing a string of the buffer's contents:
>
> (defun send-buffer-as-mail ()
>   (interactive)
>   (let ((buf (current-buffer)))
>     (compose-mail)
>     (save-excursion
>       (message-goto-body)
>       (insert-buffer buf))))

insert-buffer is still the way to go!

Re: sending a buffer by mail

[Teemu Likonen]

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John Mastro [2017-08-30 18:55:47-07] wrote:

> The difference is likely irrelevant, but you can still use
> `insert-buffer' rather than consing a string of the buffer's contents:
>
> (defun send-buffer-as-mail ()
>   (interactive)
>   (let ((buf (current-buffer)))
>     (compose-mail)
>     (save-excursion
>       (message-goto-body)
>       (insert-buffer buf))))

If you are going to use function message-goto-body I think it's a good
idea to ensure that compose-mail will use message-mode.

    (let ((mail-user-agent 'message-user-agent) ; or gnus-user-agent
          ...)
      (compose-mail)
      ...)

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Re: sending a buffer by mail

[Bob Newell]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 3:55 PM, John Mastro <john.b.mastro@gmail.com> wrote:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>>> Well, that sounds like a very thin wrapper around insert-buffer:
>>>

> (defun send-buffer-as-mail ()
>   (interactive)
>   (let ((buf (current-buffer)))
>     (compose-mail)
>     (save-excursion
>       (message-goto-body)
>       (insert-buffer buf))))
>

Quite nice, I'll add that to my startup.

-- 
Bob Newell
Honolulu, Hawai`i

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Re: sending a buffer by mail

[Emanuel Berg]

Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:

> c-x m creates an empty mail buffer, but say
> I have a buffer that I need to send by mail,
> what magic command would do the trick?

You can send mail programmatically and in this
case it would amount to combining the below
code with a function that retrieves the buffer
contents, `buffer-string', perhaps?

But I suspect your use case is better benefited
from just opening a buffer with whatever
command you fancy for that - I use

    (gnus-post-news 'post "")

- and then simply yank the buffer into it!

But here is the code anyway:

(require 'cl-lib)
(require 'gnus-msg)
(require 'message)

(defun mail-to-many (to subject body)
  (cl-dolist (this-to to)
    (gnus-post-news 'post "")
    (message-goto-to)          (insert this-to)
    (message-goto-subject)     (insert subject)
    (message-goto-body)        (insert body)
    (message-send-and-exit) ))

Source: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/emacs-init/gnus/mail-to-many.el

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Re: sending a buffer by mail

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

Belated thank you to all who replied and helped.

Jean-Christophe 

> On Aug 31, 2017, at 13:43, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:
> 
> John Mastro [2017-08-30 18:55:47-07] wrote:
> 
>> The difference is likely irrelevant, but you can still use
>> `insert-buffer' rather than consing a string of the buffer's contents:
>> 
>> (defun send-buffer-as-mail ()
>>  (interactive)
>>  (let ((buf (current-buffer)))
>>    (compose-mail)
>>    (save-excursion
>>      (message-goto-body)
>>      (insert-buffer buf))))
> 
> If you are going to use function message-goto-body I think it's a good
> idea to ensure that compose-mail will use message-mode.
> 
>    (let ((mail-user-agent 'message-user-agent) ; or gnus-user-agent
>          ...)
>      (compose-mail)
>      ...)
> 
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