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authorMichal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>2015-12-29 22:55:40 +0100
committerDavid Bremner <david@tethera.net>2016-03-14 20:34:17 -0300
commit557965b8fae3d7923cee0fb8d9b298173e73a264 (patch)
treeb4e515f77d92e71adc4d050b56185443f645f92f
parent3dcd6e9a23cb071a5c1bb474180c3b57650df56b (diff)
doc/reply: Clarify how reply-to header is handled
Current documentation and comments in the code do not correspond to the actual code and tests in the test suite ("Un-munging Reply-To" in T230-reply-to-sender.sh). Fix it.
-rw-r--r--doc/man1/notmuch-reply.rst6
-rw-r--r--notmuch-reply.c2
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man1/notmuch-reply.rst b/doc/man1/notmuch-reply.rst
index cfbd4ea8..d73f8f1c 100644
--- a/doc/man1/notmuch-reply.rst
+++ b/doc/man1/notmuch-reply.rst
@@ -13,8 +13,10 @@ 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
+set of messages and constructs a suitable mail template. Its To:
+address is set according to the original email in this way: if the
+Reply-to: header is present and different from any To:/Cc: address it
+is used, otherwise From: header is used. 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
diff --git a/notmuch-reply.c b/notmuch-reply.c
index 6df54fc9..3c6d685c 100644
--- a/notmuch-reply.c
+++ b/notmuch-reply.c
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ add_recipients_from_message (GMimeMessage *reply,
* field and use the From header. This ensures the original sender
* will get the reply even if not subscribed to the list. Note
* that the address in the Reply-To header will always appear in
- * the reply.
+ * the reply if reply_all is true.
*/
if (reply_to_header_is_redundant (message)) {
reply_to_map[0].header = "from";