Re: Questions about mail, MIME, etc.

[Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com>]

On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 10:34:26PM +0800, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> writes:
> 
> 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.

Excellent! That worked. Thank you!

> 
> 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.

Ok, I was able to send the message through gnus, even though I don't (normally) use it as a mail reader.

> >  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!

Almost. It looks like org-mime puts the actual contents of the buffer into the text/plain part, including links, etc. that would normally be hidden on display. I think it would be
more useful to make the text/plain part contain what would be output from exporting to text. But maybe that's just my preference.

Thank you!

-pd


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