1 <h1>NOTMUCH-REPLY(1)</h1>
5 notmuch-reply - constructs a reply template for a set of messages
10 <b>notmuch</b> <b>reply</b> [option ...] <<u>search-term</u>> ...
15 Constructs a reply template for a set of messages.
17 To make replying to email easier, <b>notmuch</b> <b>reply</b> takes an existing set
18 of messages and constructs a suitable mail template. Its To: address is
19 set according to the original email in this way: if the Reply-to:
20 header is present and different from any To:/Cc: address it is used,
21 otherwise From: header is used. Unless <b>--reply-to=sender</b> is specified,
22 values from the To: and Cc: headers are copied, but not including any
23 of the current user's email addresses (as configured in primary_mail or
24 other_email in the .notmuch-config file) in the recipient list.
26 It also builds a suitable new subject, including Re: at the front (if
27 not already present), and adding the message IDs of the messages being
28 replied to to the References list and setting the In-Reply-To: field
31 Finally, the original contents of the emails are quoted by prefixing
32 each line with '> ' and included in the body.
34 The resulting message template is output to stdout.
36 Supported options for <b>reply</b> include
37 <b>--format=</b>(<b>default</b>|<b>json</b>|<b>sexp</b>|<b>headers-only</b>)
40 Includes subject and quoted message body as an RFC 2822
43 <b>json</b> Produces JSON output containing headers for a reply mes‐
44 sage and the contents of the original message. This out‐
45 put can be used by a client to create a reply message
48 <b>sexp</b> Produces S-Expression output containing headers for a
49 reply message and the contents of the original message.
50 This output can be used by a client to create a reply
51 message intelligently.
54 Only produces In-Reply-To, References, To, Cc, and Bcc
57 <b>--format-version=N</b>
58 Use the specified structured output format version. This is
59 intended for programs that invoke <a href='../notmuch-1/'>notmuch</a>(1) internally. If
60 omitted, the latest supported version will be used.
62 <b>--reply-to=</b>(<b>all</b>|<b>sender</b>)
64 <b>all</b> <b>(default)</b>
65 Replies to all addresses.
67 <b>sender</b> Replies only to the sender. If replying to user's own
68 message (Reply-to: or From: header is one of the user's
69 configured email addresses), try To:, Cc:, and Bcc: head‐
70 ers in this order, and copy values from the first that
71 contains something other than only the user's addresses.
74 Decrypt any MIME encrypted parts found in the selected con‐
75 tent (ie. "multipart/encrypted" parts). Status of the decryp‐
76 tion will be reported (currently only supported with --for‐
77 mat=json and --format=sexp) and on successful decryption the
78 multipart/encrypted part will be replaced by the decrypted
81 Decryption expects a functioning <b>gpg-agent</b>(1) to provide any
82 needed credentials. Without one, the decryption will fail.
84 See <a href='../notmuch-search-terms-7/'>notmuch-search-terms</a>(7) for details of the supported syntax for
87 Note: It is most common to use <b>notmuch</b> <b>reply</b> with a search string
88 matching a single message, (such as id:<message-id>), but it can be
89 useful to reply to several messages at once. For example, when a series
90 of patches are sent in a single thread, replying to the entire thread
91 allows for the reply to comment on issues found in multiple patches.
92 The default format supports replying to multiple messages at once, but
93 the JSON and S-Expression formats do not.
98 This command supports the following special exit status codes
100 <b>20</b> The requested format version is too old.
102 <b>21</b> The requested format version is too new.
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109 <a href='../notmuch-search-1/'>notmuch-search</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-search-terms-7/'>notmuch-search-terms</a>(7), <a href='../notmuch-show-1/'>notmuch-show</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-tag-1/'>not‐</a>
110 <a href='../notmuch-tag-1/'>much-tag</a>(1)
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