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| author | Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz> | 2015-12-29 22:55:40 +0100 |
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| committer | David Bremner <david@tethera.net> | 2016-03-14 20:34:17 -0300 |
| commit | 557965b8fae3d7923cee0fb8d9b298173e73a264 (patch) | |
| tree | b4e515f77d92e71adc4d050b56185443f645f92f /doc | |
| parent | 3dcd6e9a23cb071a5c1bb474180c3b57650df56b (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.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man1/notmuch-reply.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 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 |