1 .TH NOTMUCH-REPLY 1 2012-03-18 "Notmuch 0.12~rc2"
3 notmuch-reply \- Constructs a reply template for a set of messages.
8 .RI "[" options "...] <" search-term ">..."
12 Constructs a reply template for a set of messages.
14 To make replying to email easier,
16 takes an existing set of messages and constructs a suitable mail
17 template. The Reply-to: header (if any, otherwise From:) is used for
18 the To: address. Unless
19 .BR \-\-reply-to=sender
20 is specified, values from the To: and Cc: headers are copied, but not
21 including any of the current user's email addresses (as configured in
22 primary_mail or other_email in the .notmuch\-config file) in the
25 It also builds a suitable new subject, including Re: at the front (if
26 not already present), and adding the message IDs of the messages being
27 replied to to the References list and setting the In\-Reply\-To: field
30 Finally, the original contents of the emails are quoted by prefixing
31 each line with '> ' and included in the body.
33 The resulting message template is output to stdout.
40 .BR \-\-format= ( default | json | headers\-only )
44 Includes subject and quoted message body.
47 Produces JSON output containing headers for a reply message and the
48 contents of the original message. This output can be used by a client
49 to create a reply message intelligently.
52 Only produces In\-Reply\-To, References, To, Cc, and Bcc headers.
57 .BR \-\-reply\-to= ( all | sender )
61 Replies to all addresses.
64 Replies only to the sender. If replying to user's own message
65 (Reply-to: or From: header is one of the user's configured email
66 addresses), try To:, Cc:, and Bcc: headers in this order, and copy
67 values from the first that contains something other than only the
72 See \fBnotmuch-search-terms\fR(7)
73 for details of the supported syntax for <search-terms>.
75 Note: It is most common to use
77 with a search string matching a single message, (such as
78 id:<message-id>), but it can be useful to reply to several messages at
79 once. For example, when a series of patches are sent in a single
80 thread, replying to the entire thread allows for the reply to comment
81 on issues found in multiple patches. The default format supports
82 replying to multiple messages at once, but the JSON format does not.
88 \fBnotmuch\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-config\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-count\fR(1),
89 \fBnotmuch-dump\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-hooks\fR(5), \fBnotmuch-new\fR(1),
90 \fBnotmuch-restore\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-search\fR(1),
91 \fBnotmuch-search-terms\fR(7), \fBnotmuch-show\fR(1),