Mike Zamansky has another video up in his Using Emacs Series. This time he looks at writing mu4e emails in Org-mode. Like me, he mostly wants to send plain text emails but sometimes he’d like to send tables, source code, or other rich text. He tried using the built-in org-mu4e-compose-org-mode but it’s deprecated and didn’t do everything he wanted. I’ve had the same experience. I tried org-mu4e-compose-org-mode but it didn’t do many of the things I cared about so I stopped using it.
Happily, Zamansky has found another solution: org-msg. It does a much better job of allowing you to use Org markup in your emails and rendering the results nicely. Of course, to do that it sends your mail as HTML so if you don’t like that, org-msg is not for you.
Take a look at Zamansky’s video to see both org-mu4e-compose-org-mode and org-msg in action. You can see right away why org-msg is the superior solution. In addition to its better rendering, org-msg is more configurable. You can, for example, set it to automatically add a signature or to extract the sender’s name from an email you’re replying to and use it to add a salutation.
If you’ve been looking for a way to use Org-mode with mu4e, be sure to spend a few minutes to watch this video. The video is just short of 15 minutes so it should be easy to find some time for it.