This program sends HTML email using Org-mode HTML export.

This approximates a WYSiWYG HTML mail editor from within Emacs, and can be useful for sending tables, fontified source code, and inline images in email.

Tested on Emacs 25.1, 26.1, 27

Screenshot:

(require 'org-mime)
;; for gnus – this is set by default
(setq org-mime-library 'mml)
;; OR for Wanderlust (WL)
;; (setq org-mime-library 'semi)

Run M-x org-mime-htmlize from within a mail composition buffer to export either the entire buffer or just the active region to html, and embed the results into the buffer as a text/html mime section.

Export a portion of an email body composed using mml-mode to html using org-mode. If called with an active region only export that region, otherwise export the entire body.

Warning: There has been some concern voiced over the potential complexity of email resulting from calling this function on an active region resulting in multiple multipart/alternative sections in the same email. Please see this email thread for a discussion of the potential pitfalls of this approach. Speaking from personal experience this has not been a problem for the author.

You could use org-mime-edit-mail-in-org-mode edit mail in a special editor with org-mode.

After org-mime-htmlize, you can always run org-mime-revert-to-plain-text-mail restore the original plain text mail.

org-mime-org-buffer-htmlize can be called from within an Org-mode buffer to export either the whole buffer or the narrowed subtree or active region to HTML, and open a new email buffer including the resulting HTML content as an embedded mime section.

Export the current org-mode buffer to HTML using org-export-as-html and package the results into an email handling with appropriate MIME encoding.

The following key bindings are suggested, which bind the C-c M-o key sequence to the appropriate org-mime function in both email and Org-mode buffers,

(add-hook 'message-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
            (local-set-key (kbd "C-c M-o") 'org-mime-htmlize)))
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
            (local-set-key (kbd "C-c M-o") 'org-mime-org-buffer-htmlize)))

org-mime-org-subtree-htmlize is similar to org-mime-org-buffer-htmlize but works on subtree. It can also read subtree properties MAIL_SUBJECT, MAIL_TO, MAIL_CC, MAIL_BCC, and MAIL_IN_REPLY_TO. Here is the sample of subtree:

* mail one
 :PROPERTIES:
 :MAIL_SUBJECT: mail title
 :MAIL_TO: person1@gmail.com
 :MAIL_CC: person2@gmail.com
 :MAIL_BCC: person3@gmail.com
 :MAIL_IN_REPLY_TO: <MESSAGE-ID>
 :END:
some text here ...

Use below syntax,

[[/full/path/to/your.jpg]]

Email clients will often strip all global CSS from email messages. In the case of web-based email readers this is essential in order to protect the CSS of the containing web site. To ensure that your CSS styles are rendered correctly they must be included in the actual body of the elements to which they apply.

For those who use color themes with Dark backgrounds it is useful to set a dark background for all exported code blocks and example regions. This can be accomplished with the following,

(add-hook 'org-mime-html-hook
          (lambda ()
            (org-mime-change-element-style
             "pre" (format "color: %s; background-color: %s; padding: 0.5em;"
                           "#E6E1DC" "#232323"))))

;; the following can be used to nicely offset block quotes in email bodies
(add-hook 'org-mime-html-hook
          (lambda ()
            (org-mime-change-element-style
             "blockquote" "border-left: 2px solid gray; padding-left: 4px;")))

Below code renders text between “#” in red color,

(add-hook 'org-mime-html-hook
          (lambda ()
            (while (re-search-forward "#\\([^#]*\\)#" nil t)
              (replace-match "<span style=\"color:red\">\\1</span>"))))

For other customization options see the org-mime customization group.

It already works out of box. Currently it emulates Gmail’s style.

To avoid exporting TOC, you can setup org-mime-export-options which overrides Org default settings (but still inferior to file-local settings),

(setq org-mime-export-options '(:with-latex imagemagick
                                :section-numbers nil
                                :with-author nil
                                :with-toc nil))

Or just setup your export options in org buffer/subtree.

org-mime-export-options will override your export options if it’s NOT nil.

Please double check your org and latex setup. See #33 for technical details.

You can also modify the variable org-mime-org-html-with-latex-default.

By default both the plain text and html are exported into the email.

The exported plain text could be modified in org-mime-plain-text-hook. For example, below code removes “\”,

(add-hook 'org-mime-plain-text-hook
          (lambda ()
            (while (re-search-forward "\\\\" nil t)
              (replace-match ""))))

The exported HTML could be modified in org-mime-html-hook. For example, below code renders text between “#” in red color,

(add-hook 'org-mime-html-hook
          (lambda ()
            (while (re-search-forward "#\\([^#]*\\)#" nil t)
              (replace-match "<span style=\"color:red\">\\1</span>"))))

Surely you can fix the exported HTML in org-mode. For example, One issue of org-mode is unwanted numbers in displaymath and equation.

Thibault Marin provided a patch to fix the org-mode.

In summary, this package gives you freedom to hack the plain text part or html part of the email.

If you prefer a more “elegant” way, you could always investigate the org-mode instead.

org-mime-find-html-start gives user a chance to tweak the region beginning to htmlize,

(setq org-mime-find-html-start
      (lambda (start)
        (save-excursion
          (goto-char start)
          (search-forward "<#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign>")
          (+ (point) 1))))

Use org-mime-export-ascii to export the org-mode file as ASCII for the text/plain section of the email message. The default is to export the original unmodified org-mode file.

ASCII export options:

• plain text

  (setq org-mime-export-ascii 'ascii)
      

• latin1

  (setq org-mime-export-ascii 'latin1)
      

• utf-8

  (setq org-mime-export-ascii 'utf-8)
      

If you plan to run org-mime-htmlize on all your email, you may want a confirmation if it appears you’re sending an email without multipart content. To do this, add a hook to message-send-hook to your init file:

(add-hook 'message-send-hook 'org-mime-confirm-when-no-multipart)

• 0.1.6 is the last version to support Emacs 24

• Patches are always welcomed
• You can (setq org-mime-debug t) to enable the log
• Make sure your code has minimum dependency and works on Emacs versions we support

• org-mime was developed by Eric Schulte with much-appreciated help and discussion from everyone on the using orgmode to send html mail thread especially Eric S. Fraga for adding WL support.
• Anthony Cowley fixed many bugs for exporting
• Matt Price improved handling of mail headers (CC, BCC …)

You need provides the version of Emacs and Org-mode you are using.

We also need exact steps to reproduce the issue.

Documentation from the http://orgmode.org/worg/ website (either in its HTML format or in its Org format) is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3 or later. The code examples and css style sheets are licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later.