* Guess 'From:' when doing notmuch reply
@ 2017-09-18 17:39 Damien Cassou
2017-09-18 19:25 ` David Bremner
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From: Damien Cassou @ 2017-09-18 17:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: notmuch
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?
--
Damien Cassou
http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without
losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill
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* Re: Guess 'From:' when doing notmuch reply
2017-09-18 17:39 Guess 'From:' when doing notmuch reply Damien Cassou
@ 2017-09-18 19:25 ` David Bremner
2017-09-19 8:07 ` Damien Cassou
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: David Bremner @ 2017-09-18 19:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Damien Cassou, notmuch
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
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* Re: Guess 'From:' when doing notmuch reply
2017-09-18 19:25 ` David Bremner
@ 2017-09-19 8:07 ` Damien Cassou
2017-09-20 11:38 ` David Bremner
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Damien Cassou @ 2017-09-19 8:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Bremner, notmuch
> Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me> writes:
>> 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?
David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:
> I think we'll need more information, ideally a sample message where
> notmuch-reply (on the command line) guesses the reply address
> incorrectly.
I'm not sure my company would let me send you even headers of the
email. What I can tell is that my email address does not appear in the
headers (I had a look at
notmuch-reply.c/guess_from_in_received_headers()). I can't really blame
notmuch for not finding it then :-). But, the domain name of my email
address appears in many occasions:
- in the Received: field (which looks like " from: <domain name here>")
- in the To: field (the mailing list is hosted under the same domain)
- in the From: field (the user who sent the email has an email in the
same domain)
Unfortunately, there is no Received: field with a " by " matching my
domain.
Would it be possible to guess the From: field from "Received: from
<domain>"?
--
Damien Cassou
http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without
losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill
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* Re: Guess 'From:' when doing notmuch reply
2017-09-19 8:07 ` Damien Cassou
@ 2017-09-20 11:38 ` David Bremner
2017-09-20 13:03 ` Damien Cassou
2017-09-30 6:59 ` Mark Walters
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: David Bremner @ 2017-09-20 11:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Damien Cassou, notmuch
Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me> writes:
> I'm not sure my company would let me send you even headers of the
> email. What I can tell is that my email address does not appear in the
> headers (I had a look at
> notmuch-reply.c/guess_from_in_received_headers()). I can't really blame
> notmuch for not finding it then :-). But, the domain name of my email
> address appears in many occasions:
>
> - in the Received: field (which looks like " from: <domain name here>")
>
> - in the To: field (the mailing list is hosted under the same domain)
>
> - in the From: field (the user who sent the email has an email in the
> same domain)
>
> Unfortunately, there is no Received: field with a " by " matching my
> domain.
It actually looks for " for " first.
>
> Would it be possible to guess the From: field from "Received: from
> <domain>"?
>
I'm not sure about the logic here. "Received: from foo.example.com"
means that foo.example.com is a sender for this message. It doesn't seem
to give reliable information about the receiver.
One option would be for you to customize the output of notmuch-reply in
Emacs. I think the package message-templ (unfortunately only in
marmalade, debian, and my git repo) provides tools that could help with
that. If you want to investigate it's at:
http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git?p=message-templ.git;a=summary
There may well be better tools for message-mode.
d
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* Re: Guess 'From:' when doing notmuch reply
2017-09-20 11:38 ` David Bremner
@ 2017-09-20 13:03 ` Damien Cassou
2017-09-30 6:59 ` Mark Walters
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Damien Cassou @ 2017-09-20 13:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Bremner, notmuch
David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:
> One option would be for you to customize the output of notmuch-reply in
> Emacs. I think the package message-templ (unfortunately only in
> marmalade, debian, and my git repo)
I'm using borg, so that's not a problem for me.
> provides tools that could help with that. If you want to investigate
> it's at: http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git?p=message-templ.git;a=summary
The code is great and this looks like something worth using. Thank
you. I will try it.
> There may well be better tools for message-mode.
If anyone knows anything about that, I'm all ears!
Thank you
--
Damien Cassou
http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without
losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill
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* Re: Guess 'From:' when doing notmuch reply
2017-09-20 11:38 ` David Bremner
2017-09-20 13:03 ` Damien Cassou
@ 2017-09-30 6:59 ` Mark Walters
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Mark Walters @ 2017-09-30 6:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Bremner, Damien Cassou, notmuch
> One option would be for you to customize the output of notmuch-reply in
> Emacs. I think the package message-templ (unfortunately only in
> marmalade, debian, and my git repo) provides tools that could help with
> that. If you want to investigate it's at:
>
> http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git?p=message-templ.git;a=summary
Just a thought: would it be worth including this in contrib?
Best wishes
Mark
>
> There may well be better tools for message-mode.
>
> d
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