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Previously, reply's default text format used an odd mix of RFC 2045 MIME encoding for the reply template's body and some made-up RFC 2822-like UTF-8 format for the headers. The intent was to present the headers to the user in a nice, un-encoded format, but this assumed that whatever ultimately sent the email would RFC 2047-encode the headers, while at the same time the body was already RFC 2045 encoded, so it assumed that whatever sent the email would *not* re-encode the body. This can be fixed by either producing a fully decoded UTF-8 reply template, or a fully encoded MIME-compliant RFC 2822 message. This patch does the latter because it is a) Well-defined by RFC 2822 and MIME (while any UTF-8 format would be ad hoc). b) Ready to be piped to sendmail. The point of the text format is to be minimal, so a user should be able to pop up the template in whatever editor they want, edit it, and push it to sendmail. c) Consistent with frontend capabilities. If a frontend has the smarts to RFC 2047 encode the headers before sending the mail, it probably has the smarts to RFC 2047 decode them before presenting the template to a user for editing. Also, as far as I know, nothing automated consumes the reply text format, so changing this should not cause serious problems. (And if anything does still consume this format, it probably gets these encoding issues wrong anyway.)
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133 lines
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.TH NOTMUCH-REPLY 1 2013-08-03 "Notmuch 0.16"
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.SH NAME
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notmuch-reply \- constructs a reply template for a set of messages
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B notmuch reply
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.RI "[" options "...] <" search-term ">..."
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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Constructs a reply template for a set of messages.
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To make replying to email easier,
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.B notmuch reply
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takes an existing set of messages and constructs a suitable mail
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template. The Reply-to: header (if any, otherwise From:) is used for
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the To: address. Unless
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.BR \-\-reply-to=sender
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is specified, values from the To: and Cc: headers are copied, but not
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including any of the current user's email addresses (as configured in
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primary_mail or other_email in the .notmuch\-config file) in the
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recipient list.
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It also builds a suitable new subject, including Re: at the front (if
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not already present), and adding the message IDs of the messages being
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replied to to the References list and setting the In\-Reply\-To: field
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correctly.
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Finally, the original contents of the emails are quoted by prefixing
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each line with '> ' and included in the body.
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The resulting message template is output to stdout.
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Supported options for
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.B reply
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include
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.RS
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.TP 4
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.BR \-\-format= ( default | json | sexp | headers\-only )
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.RS
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.TP 4
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.BR default
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Includes subject and quoted message body as an RFC 2822 message.
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.TP
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.BR json
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Produces JSON output containing headers for a reply message and the
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contents of the original message. This output can be used by a client
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to create a reply message intelligently.
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.TP
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.BR sexp
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Produces S-Expression output containing headers for a reply message and
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the contents of the original message. This output can be used by a client
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to create a reply message intelligently.
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.TP
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.BR headers\-only
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Only produces In\-Reply\-To, References, To, Cc, and Bcc headers.
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.RE
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.RE
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.RS
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.TP 4
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.BR \-\-format-version=N
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Use the specified structured output format version. This is intended
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for programs that invoke \fBnotmuch\fR(1) internally. If omitted, the
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latest supported version will be used.
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.RE
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.RS
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.TP 4
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.BR \-\-reply\-to= ( all | sender )
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.RS
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.TP 4
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.BR all " (default)"
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Replies to all addresses.
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.TP 4
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.BR sender
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Replies only to the sender. If replying to user's own message
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(Reply-to: or From: header is one of the user's configured email
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addresses), try To:, Cc:, and Bcc: headers in this order, and copy
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values from the first that contains something other than only the
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user's addresses.
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.RE
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.RE
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.RS
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.TP 4
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.B \-\-decrypt
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Decrypt any MIME encrypted parts found in the selected content
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(ie. "multipart/encrypted" parts). Status of the decryption will be
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reported (currently only supported with --format=json and
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--format=sexp) and on successful decryption the multipart/encrypted
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part will be replaced by the decrypted content.
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Decryption expects a functioning \fBgpg-agent\fR(1) to provide any
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needed credentials. Without one, the decryption will fail.
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.RE
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See \fBnotmuch-search-terms\fR(7)
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for details of the supported syntax for <search-terms>.
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Note: It is most common to use
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.B "notmuch reply"
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with a search string matching a single message, (such as
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id:<message-id>), but it can be useful to reply to several messages at
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once. For example, when a series of patches are sent in a single
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thread, replying to the entire thread allows for the reply to comment
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on issues found in multiple patches. The default format supports
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replying to multiple messages at once, but the JSON and S-Expression
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formats do not.
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.RE
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.RE
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.SH EXIT STATUS
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This command supports the following special exit status codes
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.TP
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.B 20
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The requested format version is too old.
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.TP
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.B 21
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The requested format version is too new.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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\fBnotmuch\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-config\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-count\fR(1),
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\fBnotmuch-dump\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-hooks\fR(5),
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\fBnotmuch-insert\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-new\fR(1),
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\fBnotmuch-restore\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-search\fR(1),
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\fBnotmuch-search-terms\fR(7), \fBnotmuch-show\fR(1),
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\fBnotmuch-tag\fR(1)
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