How to write and prepare an email to be sent from org-mode

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How to write and prepare an email to be sent from org-mode

@[email protected] https://social.coop/@fnat/114830041609939391 was interested in a workflow where he would write an email in org-mode that gets converted to text to be sent out.

I do not publish my config, it’s a lot of org-mode. Some is tangled, some is manually loaded via babel blocks that I execute as I re-need something.

To author an email in org-mode I often use a capture template that pre-fills some information but basically I have something like this:

* TODO Write an email to myself so that I can show how to author emails in org-mode
:PROPERTIES:
:mail_to:  Nick Anderson <[email protected]>
:mail_subject: I wrote this with love in Emacs org-mode
:mail_from: Nick Anderson <[email protected]>
:END:

Emacs org-mode wisdom #42: Org-mode This Is The Way.
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Then I use org-mime-org-subtree-htmlize from org-mime and then I send it which drops to my local postfix queue for delivery via smtpauth based on the sender.