Re: [O] Mail composed using emacs --- saving a copy in an org file.

2012-03-16 Thread Karl Voit
* Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com wrote: An emacs FAQ suggests sending a BCC or FCC to oneself. What I want is a copy stored in an org-mode subtree, with a convenient headline indicating the name of the recipient and the date. Hi! Maybe Memacs[1] can get you what you want. Fully

Re: [O] Mail composed using emacs --- saving a copy in an org file.

2012-03-16 Thread brian powell
* Wow! That looks like great software! Looks like it very well might do what Alan was looking for--and a whole lot more. Just out of curiosity: Have you, Karl, looked into linking into doing a mashup with GNOWSYS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOWSYS ** Maybe GNOWSYS would be used after

Re: [O] Mail composed using emacs --- saving a copy in an org file.

2012-03-15 Thread Jos'h Fuller
Hi! You could try doing something with org-capture and the org-capture-templates so that you would be creating your email from the start as an org tree entry under the appropriate location. You can override the org-capture-before-finalize hook (see org-capture.el) to send the mail when you're

Re: [O] Mail composed using emacs --- saving a copy in an org file.

2012-03-15 Thread Peter Salazar
I thought of this too. But the problem is that when opening an indirect buffer under an org tree entry, or even opening a capture buffer, the org star heading appears at the top of the buffer. Whereas to send e-mail, at least using the mail-send command I've been using, the e-mail header

Re: [O] Mail composed using emacs --- saving a copy in an org file.

2012-03-15 Thread brian powell
* Josh's answer seems great. ** I used to use VM in EMACS, worked great, highly recommend it--you could then use EMACS hooks like: vm-mail-hook List of hook functions to be run after a Mail mode composition buffer has been created to send a non specialized message, i.e. a message that is not a

Re: [O] Mail composed using emacs --- saving a copy in an org file.

2012-03-15 Thread brian powell
* This would probably be a better main hook to use if you elaborate/implement my suggestion: vm-visit-folder-hook List of hook functions called just after VM visits a folder. It doesn't matter if the folder buffer already exists, this hook is run each time vm or vm-visit-folder is called

Re: [O] Mail composed using emacs --- saving a copy in an org file.

2012-03-15 Thread Nick Dokos
Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com wrote: I am partial to just opening a mail buffer and writing email in Emacs.  Just that.  However, it would be great to save a copy in an org file. Are you using an emacs package to send email? Or are you just composing your email in emacs, saving it as a

Re: [O] Mail composed using emacs --- saving a copy in an org file.

2012-03-15 Thread brian powell
* Fully agree with nick--especially about the please be more specific about the MUA-part--mh-e is another possibility--written by another person I used to work with (mh)--vm was written by Kyle Jones--yet another person I used to work with... ** Come to think of it; I used to use RMAIL too in