1 .TH NOTMUCH-REPLY 1 2011-12-04 "Notmuch 0.10.2"
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. Vales from the To: and Cc: headers are copied, but
19 not including any of the current user's email addresses (as configured
20 in primary_mail or other_email in the .notmuch\-config file) in the
23 It also builds a suitable new subject, including Re: at the front (if
24 not already present), and adding the message IDs of the messages being
25 replied to to the References list and setting the In\-Reply\-To: field
28 Finally, the original contents of the emails are quoted by prefixing
29 each line with '> ' and included in the body.
31 The resulting message template is output to stdout.
38 .BR \-\-format= ( default | headers\-only )
42 Includes subject and quoted message body.
45 Only produces In\-Reply\-To, References, To, Cc, and Bcc headers.
51 section below for details of the supported syntax for <search-terms>.
53 Note: It is most common to use
55 with a search string matching a single message, (such as
56 id:<message-id>), but it can be useful to reply to several messages at
57 once. For example, when a series of patches are sent in a single
58 thread, replying to the entire thread allows for the reply to comment
59 on issue found in multiple patches.