[PATCH 1/4] emacs: Build forwarded message buffer more directly

[Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>]

Previously, we used `message-forward' to build forwarded messages, but
this function is simply too high-level to be a good fit for some of
what we do.

First, since `message-forward' builds a full forward message buffer
given the message to forward, we have to duplicate much of the logic
in `notmuch-mua-mail' to patch the notmuch-y things into the built
buffer.

Second, `message-forward' constructs the From header from
user-full-name and user-mail-address.  As a result, if we prompt the
user for an identity, we have to parse it into name and address
components, just to have it put back together by `message-forward'.
This process is not entirely loss-less because
`mail-extract-address-components' does a lot of canonicalization
(since it's intended for displaying addresses, not for parsing them).

To fix these problems, don't use `message-forward' at all.
`message-forward' itself is basically just a call to `message-mail'
and `message-forward-make-body'.  Do this ourselves, but call
`notmuch-mua-mail' instead of `message-mail' so we can directly build
a notmuch-y message and control the From header.

This also fixes a bug that was a direct consequence of our use of
`mail-extract-address-components': if the user chose an identity that
had no name part (or the name part matched the mailbox), we would bind
user-full-name to nil, which would cause an exception in the bowels of
message-mode because user-full-name is expected to always be a string
(even if it's just "").
---
 emacs/notmuch-mua.el | 33 +++++++++++----------------------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-mua.el b/emacs/notmuch-mua.el
index 481abd7..f2df770 100644
--- a/emacs/notmuch-mua.el
+++ b/emacs/notmuch-mua.el
@@ -231,21 +231,6 @@ list."
   (message-goto-body)
   (set-buffer-modified-p nil))
 
-(defun notmuch-mua-forward-message ()
-  (funcall (notmuch-mua-get-switch-function) (current-buffer))
-  (message-forward)
-
-  (when notmuch-mua-user-agent-function
-    (let ((user-agent (funcall notmuch-mua-user-agent-function)))
-      (when (not (string= "" user-agent))
-	(message-add-header (format "User-Agent: %s" user-agent)))))
-  (message-sort-headers)
-  (message-hide-headers)
-  (set-buffer-modified-p nil)
-  (notmuch-mua-maybe-set-window-dedicated)
-
-  (message-goto-to))
-
 (defun notmuch-mua-mail (&optional to subject other-headers &rest other-args)
   "Invoke the notmuch mail composition window.
 
@@ -345,13 +330,17 @@ The current buffer must contain an RFC2822 message to forward.
 
 If PROMPT-FOR-SENDER is non-nil, the user will be prompted for
 the From: address first."
-  (if (or prompt-for-sender notmuch-always-prompt-for-sender)
-      (let* ((sender (notmuch-mua-prompt-for-sender))
-	     (address-components (mail-extract-address-components sender))
-	     (user-full-name (car address-components))
-	     (user-mail-address (cadr address-components)))
-	(notmuch-mua-forward-message))
-    (notmuch-mua-forward-message)))
+  (let* ((cur (current-buffer))
+	 (message-forward-decoded-p nil)
+	 (subject (message-make-forward-subject))
+	 (other-headers
+	  (when (or prompt-for-sender notmuch-always-prompt-for-sender)
+	    (list (cons 'From (notmuch-mua-prompt-for-sender))))))
+    (notmuch-mua-mail nil subject other-headers nil (notmuch-mua-get-switch-function))
+    (message-forward-make-body cur)
+    ;; `message-forward-make-body' shows the User-agent header.  Hide
+    ;; it again.
+    (message-hide-headers)))
 
 (defun notmuch-mua-new-reply (query-string &optional prompt-for-sender reply-all)
   "Compose a reply to the message identified by QUERY-STRING.
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