Re: [Orgmode] [CONTRIB?] using orgmode to send html mail?

[Eric Schulte]

It's certainly true that email clients can be particular about how they
display HTML.

One possible fix for issues like these is to use the
`org-mime-html-hook' hook and the `org-mime-change-element-style'
function for forcing inline css into the misbehaving elements.

Best -- Eric

Dan Davison <address@hidden> writes:

> Hmm, perhaps I should have been a bit more careful with protecting the
> various special email constructs in my message. Second try:
>
> Dan Davison <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> Thanks a lot for this, I think I'll use it quite a bit.
>>
>> This may be specific to my setup, but in case this is useful to others,
>> as a gnus user I had to do
>>
>> (setq mail-user-agent 'message-user-agent)
>>
>> Without altering this --- i.e. with mail-user-agent set to the default
>> value of 'sendmail-user-agent --- org-mime-org-buffer-htmlize puts the
>> outgoing message in mail-mode (a.o.t. message-mode). For me, that meant
>> that the resulting outgoing email was rendered verbatim in gmail,
>> whereas from message-mode it is fine. The exact contents of outgoing
>> emails are below.
>>
>> I noticed one small bug, but perhaps it's an org-mode bug? When I use
>> org-mime-org-buffer-htmlize on this
>>
>> ,----
>> | *** Tasks
>> |     - [ ] Check Popen.returncode of python system calls
>> `----
>>
>> I get the following, which renders as a checkbox with an X, whereas my
>> checkbox was empty.
>
> (I've replaced the <> tag delimiters with {})
>
> {#multipart type=alternative}{#part type=text/plain}
>
> *** Tasks
>     - [ ] Check Popen.returncode of python system calls
> {#part type=text/html}{div id="outline-container-1" class="outline-3"}
> {h3 id="sec-1"}Tasks {/h3}
> {div class="outline-text-3" id="text-1"}
>
> {ul}
> {li}
> {b}[{span style="visibility:hidden;"}X{/span}]{/b} Check Popen.returncode of 
> python system calls
> {/li}
> {/ul}
> {/div}
> {/div}
> {#/multipart}
>
>> Comparison of outgoing mail from mail-mode and message-mode:
>>
>> With an org buffer containing (as active region or not)
>>
>> ,----
>> | * heading
>> |   text
>> `----
>>
>> Here is what the outgoing email (i.e. the stdin received by
>> sendmail-program) looks like from mail-mode (mail formed by
>> org-mime-org-buffer-htmlize)
>>
>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: test
>
> {#multipart type=alternative}{#part type=text/plain}
> * heading
>   text{#part type=text/html}{div id="outline-container-1" class="outline-2"}
> {h2 id="sec-1"}heading {/h2}
> {div class="outline-text-2" id="text-1"}
>
> {p}text
> {/p}{/div}
> {/div}
> {#/multipart}
>
>> And here is what the outgoing email looks like from message-mode (exact
>> same content, but pasted from mail-mode into message-mode).
>>
>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> From: Dan Davison <address@hidden>
>> To: address@hidden
>> Subject: test16
>> Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:26:23 -0400
>> Message-ID: <address@hidden>
>> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux)
>> MIME-Version: 1.0
>> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=-=-="
>>
>> --=-=-=
>>
>> * heading
>>   text
>>
>> --=-=-=
>> Content-Type: text/html
>>
>> <div id="outline-container-1" class="outline-2">
>> <h2 id="sec-1">heading </h2>
>> <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-1">
>>
>> <p>text
>> </p></div>
>> </div>
>>
>> --=-=-=--
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> "Eric Schulte" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> It is now possible to send HTML mail directly form an org-mode buffer.
>>>
>>> Calling `org-mime-org-buffer-htmlize' (could probably use a better name)
>>> from inside of an org-mode buffer will use `org-export-as-html' to
>>> generate HTML of the buffer (respecting regions and subtree narrowing),
>>> and will then package the resulting HTML with all linked images into a
>>> message buffer.
>>>
>>> As usual thanks to Carsten's thoughtfully organized functions and
>>> control variables this was surprisingly easy to implement.
>>>
>>> Cheers -- Eric
>>>
>>> The code is still up at http://github.com/eschulte/org-mime
>>>
>>> "Eric Schulte" <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> Dan Davison <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> As I understand it the code you've written is designed to be called in a
>>>>> message-mode buffer with orgstruct-mode in force. Would it make sense to
>>>>> also include in your package a complementary function, that one calls in
>>>>> an org-mode buffer? I envisage this generating the HTML, forming the
>>>>> multipart email contents, and then saving it to the kill ring, so that
>>>>> it can be pasted into an email.
>>>>>
>>>>> This function would have access to the directory-name and so should be
>>>>> able to resolve relative paths. Also, there might be some other
>>>>> advantages -- for example when exporting just a region or subtree,
>>>>> buffer-wide properties such as #+TITLE and #+AUTHOR are picked up by the
>>>>> org exporter and packaged into the HTML.
>>>>>
>>>>> In other words, can I use your machinery to package up the HTML
>>>>> generated by Org's C-e dispatcher into an appropriately-constructed
>>>>> email?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Dan,
>>>>
>>>> That sounds like a good idea, I've added it to a fledgling task list
>>>> packaged in the README at [1].  I'd say there are two options.
>>>>
>>>> 1) which you mentioned saving the entire exported content to the
>>>>    kill-ring.  One problem here is that everything is still text and
>>>>    pastable only *before* the mime export process, which means that
>>>>    linked images wouldn't resolve after pasting into the email client.
>>>>
>>>> 2) having the function generate a new mail buffer containing the
>>>>    exported content.  This buffer would need to have it's
>>>>    `buffer-file-name' set, for images to resolve during export.  I'm not
>>>>    sure how this should best work.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks -- Eric
>>>>
>>>> Footnotes: 
>>>> [1]  http://github.com/eschulte/org-mime
>>>
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