Eric Schulte <eric.schu...@gmx.com> writes:
>>
>> - Email. Some very elegant (in complicated ways) solutions have
>> been generated, but all I need it simple text-based email. I
>> would be willing to install sendmail or postfix, if need be, but
>> I don't really wish to send html based email. See the next item.
>
> Limiting to the one aspect of this email towards which I may have
> something useful to contribute. One option for text email is to use
> org-mime from contrib/lisp/org-mime.el and then structure a subtree as
> follows...
>
> ,----
> | * send this to eric
> | :PROPERTIES:
> | :mail_to: eric.schu...@foo.bar
> | :END:
> |
> | Here is an Org-mode email which will be sent to me.
> |
> | | 1 |
> | | 2 |
> | | 3 |
> | | 4 |
> |
> |
> `----
>
> calling org-mime-subtree from within that subtree will result in a
> message buffer holding the following (modulo your gnus/message setup)
>
> ,----
> | To: eric.schu...@foo.bar
> | Subject: send this to eric
> | X-Draft-From: ("org-mode" 2692)
> | From: Eric Schulte <eric.schu...@foo.bar>
> | --text follows this line--
> | Here is an Org-mode email which will be sent to me.
> |
> | | 1 |
> | | 2 |
> | | 3 |
> | | 4 |
> `----
>
> By default the resulting email is text generated using (I believe)
> org-export-as-org.
>
> [...]
>
>> One thing I really like about Org-mode is the ability to keep a
>> large number of kinds of information straight in various
>> ways---either in separate files, or for related topics, in
>> different headlines of the same file. I need all of these files
>> to be searched. The best searching seems to reside in the agenda
>> interface. But it seems illogical, to me, to constrain searching
>> to the same set of files as for an Agenda, except if I am only
>> searching things I am currently keeping on todo lists. I want a
>> large subset of *.org files open for searches, but I may want to
>> limit the number of files processed for a daily or weekly agenda
>> view.
>
> The desire to separate searching from agenda views makes perfect sense
> to me. I've never used the searching features of Org-mode myself. I
> suppose I use rgrep when digging through my Org-mode ~/notes/recipes.
>
> Cheers,
On the subject I too tried org-contacts and found it novel but not
really a replacement for bbdb. I tried gnus sync with google contacts
too but that was too slow. I suspect the best way to handle this is to
simply use a google to bbdb importer and continue to use bbdb for
contact lookups as its nicely integrated already (well, in gnus it is)
and seems fast enough.
