[PATCH 0/4] Allow specifying alternate names for addresses in other_email

[Jani Nikula]

On Tue, 09 Aug 2016, Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> wrote:
> Currently, while notmuch-reply will recognize email addresses other than
> the main address with user.other_email, it always sets the name part of
> the address in the envelope-from and From headers to user.name. This
> patchset enables specifying names on a per-address basis with a new
> user.other_name property. Presumably other users of user.other_email
> may want to use this as well, but those are not updated currently.

I am not convinved by adding another configuration option, especially
when it has to be in sync with another configuration option (ordering in
user.other_name having to match user.other_email). I would much prefer
allowing (but not requiring) "Name <user at example.org>" style addresses
both in user.primary_email and user.other_email.

With a cursory glance at the implementation, I wonder if you could just
pick the name based on the address you've picked earlier, and leave the
address matching mostly as it is. Would save some passing of parameters
around. Maybe.

Additionally, I'd very much like to have my series [1] merged
first. It'll be *much* easier to rebase your series on top than the
other way around...

BR,
Jani.


[1] id:cover.1471088022.git.jani at nikula.org