NAME¶
notmuch-reply - Constructs a reply template for a set of messages.
SYNOPSIS¶
notmuch reply [
options...] <
search-term>...
DESCRIPTION¶
Constructs a reply template for a set of messages.
To make replying to email easier,
notmuch reply takes an existing set of
messages and constructs a suitable mail template. The Reply-to: header (if
any, otherwise From:) is used for the To: address. Unless
--reply-to=sender is specified, values from the To: and Cc: headers are
copied, but not including any of the current user's email addresses (as
configured in primary_mail or other_email in the .notmuch-config file) in the
recipient list.
It also builds a suitable new subject, including Re: at the front (if not
already present), and adding the message IDs of the messages being replied to
to the References list and setting the In-Reply-To: field correctly.
Finally, the original contents of the emails are quoted by prefixing each line
with '> ' and included in the body.
The resulting message template is output to stdout.
Supported options for
reply include
- --format=(default|json|headers-only)
- default
- Includes subject and quoted message body.
- json
- Produces JSON output containing headers for a reply message
and the contents of the original message. This output can be used by a
client to create a reply message intelligently.
- headers-only
- Only produces In-Reply-To, References, To, Cc, and Bcc
headers.
- --reply-to=(all|sender)
- all (default)
- Replies to all addresses.
- sender
- Replies only to the sender. If replying to user's own
message (Reply-to: or From: header is one of the user's configured email
addresses), try To:, Cc:, and Bcc: headers in this order, and copy values
from the first that contains something other than only the user's
addresses.
- --decrypt
-
Decrypt any MIME encrypted parts found in the selected content (ie.
"multipart/encrypted" parts). Status of the decryption will be
reported (currently only supported with --format=json) and the
multipart/encrypted part will be replaced by the decrypted content.
See
notmuch-search-terms(7) for details of the supported syntax for
<search-terms>.
Note: It is most common to use
notmuch reply with a search string
matching a single message, (such as id:<message-id>), but it can be
useful to reply to several messages at once. For example, when a series of
patches are sent in a single thread, replying to the entire thread allows for
the reply to comment on issues found in multiple patches. The default format
supports replying to multiple messages at once, but the JSON format does not.
SEE ALSO¶
notmuch(1),
notmuch-config(1),
notmuch-count(1),
notmuch-dump(1),
notmuch-hooks(5),
notmuch-new(1),
notmuch-restore(1),
notmuch-search(1),
notmuch-search-terms(7),
notmuch-show(1),
notmuch-tag(1)
