Re: automatically changing FCC when From changes (or fill FCC only when sending)

[David Bremner <david@tethera.net>]

David Pinto <carandraug@gmail.com> writes:

>
> My case is that I have multiple email accounts and want the sent
> messages saved on different directories based on the "From" address.
> I've setup 'notmuch-fcc-dirs' accordingly.  Now, when I start
> composing a message (notmuch-user-agent), the FCC header is set to
> whatever is the default "From" address.  But if I change the "From"
> address, the FCC header is not updated.

That is the expected behaviour, yeah.

> Is there a way to either have the FCC header changed when the "From"
> address changes?  Or maybe only add the FCC header when sending
> the message?

Generally I think people like the ability to hand-edit the header, so I
don't think adding it at send time would work for everyone. I do
something related based on address completion: I update the From header
based on To.

I use message-templ [1], along with
notmuch-address-post-completion-functions. My solution is a bit niche
because message-templ is a bit obscure, but I'm happy to go into details
if you are interested.


[1]: https://git.tethera.net/message-templ.git/