NOTMUCH-REPLY(1)					      General Commands Manual						  NOTMUCH-REPLY(1)

NAME

       notmuch-reply - Constructs a reply template for a set of messages.

SYNOPSIS

       notmuch reply [options...] <search-term>...

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 --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-con-
       fig file) in the recipient list.

       It also builds a suitable new subject, including Re: at the front (if not already present), and adding the  message  IDs  of  the  messages
       being replied to to the References list and setting the In-Reply-To: field correctly.

       Finally, the original contents of the emails are quoted by prefixing each line with '> ' and included in the body.

       The resulting message template is output to stdout.

       Supported options for reply include

	      --format=(default|json|headers-only)

		  default
		      Includes subject and quoted message body.

		  json
		      Produces	JSON  output  containing  headers for a reply message and the contents of the original message. This output can be
		      used by a client to create a reply message intelligently.

		  headers-only
		      Only produces In-Reply-To, References, To, Cc, and Bcc headers.

	      --reply-to=(all|sender)

		  all (default)
		      Replies to all addresses.

		  sender
		      Replies only to the sender. If replying to user's own message (Reply-to: or From: header is one  of  the	user's	configured
		      email addresses), try To:, Cc:, and Bcc: headers in this order, and copy values from the first that contains something other
		      than only the user's addresses.

	      --decrypt

		  Decrypt any MIME encrypted parts found in the selected content (ie. "multipart/encrypted" parts). Status of the decryption  will
		  be  reported	(currently  only  supported with --format=json) and the multipart/encrypted part will be replaced by the decrypted
		  content.

       See notmuch-search-terms(7) for details of the supported syntax for <search-terms>.

       Note: It is most common to use notmuch reply with a search string matching a single message, (such as id:<message-id>), but it can be  use-
       ful  to reply to several messages at once. For example, when a series of patches are sent in a single thread, replying to the entire thread
       allows for the reply to comment on issues found in multiple patches. The default format supports replying to multiple messages at once, but
       the JSON format does not.

SEE ALSO

       notmuch(1),  notmuch-config(1), notmuch-count(1), notmuch-dump(1), notmuch-hooks(5), notmuch-new(1), notmuch-restore(1), notmuch-search(1),
       notmuch-search-terms(7), notmuch-show(1), notmuch-tag(1)

Notmuch 0.13.2							    2012-06-01							  NOTMUCH-REPLY(1)