Re: reading and writing html mail

[docgnome <docgnome@gmail.com>]

At Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:28:00 -0400,
Matt Price wrote:
> two more little issues:
> 
> - when I receive an html mail, I would like to be able to click on a
>   link & have it open in firefox (or perform some keystroke when point
>   is inside some linked text, for the same purpose).  right now
>   thisdoesn't work -- I can open a link written in plain text, but
>   trying the same trick (M-x browswe-url) in html mail doesn't work.
>   Any clues?
(require 'w3m-load)
(require 'mime-w3m)
(add-hook 'wl-init-hook 'mime-w3m-insinuate)

That should do the trick assuming you have the emacs w3m stuff and
w3m. It will render emails as html if it is available but plain text
if it isn't.
> - occasionally I want to send an html mail, usually in response to one
>   I've received.  I would really like to be able to use e.g. org-mode
>   style links in the text, e.g. [[click
>   here][http://some.url.here/right]] and have them render as html
>   after processing.  does anyone do this?  maybe using some kind of
>   hook to switch composition modes depending on whether the mail
>   you're repsonding to is html or plaintext?  

I've not used org mode for this, but I do have to send multipart
messages for work so I've sort of cheated and created a yasnippet
snippet to handle this. It's a pretty lame solution but it work well
enough for my needs.

Dave