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
38 <b>--format=(default|json|sexp|headers-only)</b>
41 Includes subject and quoted message body as an RFC 2822
44 <b>json</b> Produces JSON output containing headers for a reply mes‐
45 sage and the contents of the original message. This out‐
46 put can be used by a client to create a reply message in‐
49 <b>sexp</b> Produces S-Expression output containing headers for a re‐
50 ply message and the contents of the original message.
51 This output can be used by a client to create a reply
52 message intelligently.
55 Only produces In-Reply-To, References, To, Cc, and Bcc
58 <b>--format-version=N</b>
59 Use the specified structured output format version. This is in‐
60 tended for programs that invoke <a href='../notmuch-1/'>notmuch</a>(1) internally. If omit‐
61 ted, the latest supported version will be used.
63 <b>--reply-to=(all|sender)</b>
65 <b>all</b> <b>(default)</b>
66 Replies to all addresses.
68 <b>sender</b> Replies only to the sender. If replying to user's own
69 message (Reply-to: or From: header is one of the user's
70 configured email addresses), try To:, Cc:, and Bcc: head‐
71 ers in this order, and copy values from the first that
72 contains something other than only the user's addresses.
74 <b>--decrypt=(false|auto|true)</b>
75 If <b>true</b>, decrypt any MIME encrypted parts found in the selected
76 content (i.e., "multipart/encrypted" parts). Status of the de‐
77 cryption will be reported (currently only supported with <b>--for-</b>
78 <b>mat=json</b> and <b>--format=sexp</b>), and on successful decryption the
79 multipart/encrypted part will be replaced by the decrypted con‐
82 If <b>auto</b>, and a session key is already known for the message,
83 then it will be decrypted, but notmuch will not try to access
84 the user's secret keys.
86 Use <b>false</b> to avoid even automatic decryption.
88 Non-automatic decryption expects a functioning <b>gpg-agent</b>(1) to
89 provide any needed credentials. Without one, the decryption will
94 See <a href='../notmuch-search-terms-7/'>notmuch-search-terms</a>(7) for details of the supported syntax for
97 Note: It is most common to use <b>notmuch</b> <b>reply</b> with a search string
98 matching a single message, (such as id:<message-id>), but it can be
99 useful to reply to several messages at once. For example, when a series
100 of patches are sent in a single thread, replying to the entire thread
101 allows for the reply to comment on issues found in multiple patches.
102 The default format supports replying to multiple messages at once, but
103 the JSON and S-Expression formats do not.
108 This command supports the following special exit status codes
110 <b>20</b> The requested format version is too old.
112 <b>21</b> The requested format version is too new.
117 <a href='../notmuch-1/'>notmuch</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-config-1/'>notmuch-config</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-count-1/'>notmuch-count</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-dump-1/'>notmuch-dump</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-hooks-5/'>not‐</a>
118 <a href='../notmuch-hooks-5/'>much-hooks</a>(5), <a href='../notmuch-insert-1/'>notmuch-insert</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-new-1/'>notmuch-new</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-restore-1/'>notmuch-restore</a>(1),
119 <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>
120 <a href='../notmuch-tag-1/'>much-tag</a>(1)
125 Carl Worth and many others
130 2009-2022, Carl Worth and many others