emacs notmuch-reply: Change FROM adress according to TO address

David Bremner david at tethera.net
Tue Nov 1 11:53:25 PDT 2016


Jörg Volbers <joerg at joergvolbers.de> writes:

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> Hi there,
>
> I am using notmuch in Emacs with three different from-addresses (via
> mbsync). When replying an email, I currently have to set the FROM-address
> manually. What I would like to have is that the FROM-address is set
> automagically according to the TO-address. I.e., if someone writes to my
> address "foo.com", the reply should come from "foo.com"; if someone
> writes to "foo.de", the reply should come from "foo.de".
>
> I know that I can set the reply address by prefixing the command 'r',
> which lets me choose my sender address, but that's not exactly
> automatically.
>
> Any hints are appreciated! (please CC me since I am not subscribing the
> list)

This should be automatic for those To addresses listed in
user.primary_email user.other_email in ~/.notmuch-config. You can set
this by hand or using "notmuch config set user.other_email
bar at foo.de;bar at foo.com"

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