Re: Guess 'From:' when doing notmuch reply

[David Bremner <david@tethera.net>]

Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me> writes:

> Hi,
>
> notmuch-always-prompt-for-sender is a variable defined in
> ‘notmuch-mua.el’ whose documentation is
>
>   > Always prompt for the From: address when composing or forwarding a
>   > message. This is not taken into account when replying to a message,
>   > because in that case the From: header is already filled in by
>   > notmuch.
>
> Unfortunately, notmuch always got the From: field wrong when replying to
> a (microsoft-exchange hosted) mailing list. The result of this is that I
> always answer with the incorrect email address resulting in an error
> message from the mailing list a few minutes after.
>
> Is there anything I can do to make notmuch properly guess the From:
> field?
>

I think we'll need more information, ideally a sample message where
notmuch-reply (on the command line) guesses the reply address
incorrectly.

d