Re: emails written in Org Mode

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> Can't you just change your buffer mode to org-mode, compose, change back
> to message-mode and send? Did you want to do more than that?
>
> I played around with using a heading with properties to send an
> email. Basically the heading is the subject, you set some properties
> about TO, CC, etc... and the heading content is the body. You just put
> your cursor in the heading and run M-x email-heading. You can see the
> code here https://github.com/jkitchin/jmax/blob/master/email.el#L31
>
> and
>
> https://github.com/jkitchin/jmax/blob/master/email.el#L35
>
> It saves some details in properties, like when it was sent, etc... It is
> occasionally useful to me.

Org-mime in contrib/lisp does pretty much exactly this!

>
>
> Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi Thorsten,  On a recent thread you wrote: 
>>
>>> ... *outorg-edit-buffer* (where I write my message-mode email in
>>> full
>>> org-mode).
>>
>> I already write emails in emacs. I'm interested in being able to compose
>> emails using Org Mode. I see you use gnus. I use mu4e[1]. I wonder if
>> your setup is gnus-specific or might work with other emacs mail
>> clients. Will you provide some information about this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>  -k.
>>
>> [1] http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html
>>
>>