forwarding multiple messages from notmuch emacs

forwarding multiple messages from notmuch emacs

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

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hi notmuch folks--

i'd like to be able to forward several messages from a given thread (up
to and including the whole thread) to someone else.  I use
notmuch-emacs.

I don't think it's possible to do this at the moment;
notmuch-show-forward-message just forwards the message where the point
is located, even if the current region covers more than one message.

I'd be happy to have a notmuch-show-forward-thread or
notmuch-show-forward-all-expanded-messages or
notmuch-show-forward-messages-from-region capability, but my elisp-fu is
weak.  I'd be happy to test if someone wanted to send me a patch though
:)

Background: one of the reasons that people often give for the terrible
e-mail practice of top-posting-with-all-previous-messages-trailing is
that they want to be able to send a message to someone else and have
them be able to see the whole thread (never mind that these kind of
reverse-chronological forwarded messages are difficult to read).  I'd
like to be able to respond to those claims with something like
"reasonable MUAs should let you easily forward all messages in a thread
if you want to catch someone up."

I consider notmuch-emacs a reasonable MUA :)

thanks everyone for notmuch,

        --dkg

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Re: forwarding multiple messages from notmuch emacs

[Jeremy Nickurak]

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Adam


On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net
> wrote:

> hi notmuch folks--
>
> i'd like to be able to forward several messages from a given thread (up
> to and including the whole thread) to someone else.  I use
> notmuch-emacs.
>
> I don't think it's possible to do this at the moment;
> notmuch-show-forward-message just forwards the message where the point
> is located, even if the current region covers more than one message.
>
> I'd be happy to have a notmuch-show-forward-thread or
> notmuch-show-forward-all-expanded-messages or
> notmuch-show-forward-messages-from-region capability, but my elisp-fu is
> weak.  I'd be happy to test if someone wanted to send me a patch though
> :)
>
> Background: one of the reasons that people often give for the terrible
> e-mail practice of top-posting-with-all-previous-messages-trailing is
> that they want to be able to send a message to someone else and have
> them be able to see the whole thread (never mind that these kind of
> reverse-chronological forwarded messages are difficult to read).  I'd
> like to be able to respond to those claims with something like
> "reasonable MUAs should let you easily forward all messages in a thread
> if you want to catch someone up."
>
> I consider notmuch-emacs a reasonable MUA :)
>
> thanks everyone for notmuch,
>
>         --dkg
>
> _______________________________________________
> notmuch mailing list
> notmuch@notmuchmail.org
> http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch
>
>

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Re: forwarding multiple messages from notmuch emacs

[Jeremy Nickurak]

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Sigh. Premature posting...

Adam Wolfe Gordon on here gave me a tip for this. It's not perfect, but it
works:

Start forwarding each of the emails, and just cut-and-paste the
<#mml>..</#mml> sections out of the buffers into a new email. That'll have
the effect of forwarding all the emails.


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Jeremy Nickurak
<not-much@trk.nickurak.ca>wrote:

> Adam
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <
> dkg@fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
>
>> hi notmuch folks--
>>
>> i'd like to be able to forward several messages from a given thread (up
>> to and including the whole thread) to someone else.  I use
>> notmuch-emacs.
>>
>> I don't think it's possible to do this at the moment;
>> notmuch-show-forward-message just forwards the message where the point
>> is located, even if the current region covers more than one message.
>>
>> I'd be happy to have a notmuch-show-forward-thread or
>> notmuch-show-forward-all-expanded-messages or
>> notmuch-show-forward-messages-from-region capability, but my elisp-fu is
>> weak.  I'd be happy to test if someone wanted to send me a patch though
>> :)
>>
>> Background: one of the reasons that people often give for the terrible
>> e-mail practice of top-posting-with-all-previous-messages-trailing is
>> that they want to be able to send a message to someone else and have
>> them be able to see the whole thread (never mind that these kind of
>> reverse-chronological forwarded messages are difficult to read).  I'd
>> like to be able to respond to those claims with something like
>> "reasonable MUAs should let you easily forward all messages in a thread
>> if you want to catch someone up."
>>
>> I consider notmuch-emacs a reasonable MUA :)
>>
>> thanks everyone for notmuch,
>>
>>         --dkg
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> notmuch mailing list
>> notmuch@notmuchmail.org
>> http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch
>>
>>
>

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Re: forwarding multiple messages from notmuch emacs

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

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On 04/25/2013 02:12 AM, Jeremy Nickurak wrote:
> Sigh. Premature posting...
> 
> Adam Wolfe Gordon on here gave me a tip for this. It's not perfect, but it
> works:
> 
> Start forwarding each of the emails, and just cut-and-paste the
> <#mml>..</#mml> sections out of the buffers into a new email. That'll have
> the effect of forwarding all the emails.

Thanks!  That does work of course, but i'd like it to be simpler and
easier :)  Especially for longer threads, the process you describe is
pretty tedious.

Any takers?

	--dkg


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Re: forwarding multiple messages from notmuch emacs

[David Edmondson]

On Tue, Apr 23 2013, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> hi notmuch folks--
>
> i'd like to be able to forward several messages from a given thread (up
> to and including the whole thread) to someone else.  I use
> notmuch-emacs.
>
> I don't think it's possible to do this at the moment;
> notmuch-show-forward-message just forwards the message where the point
> is located, even if the current region covers more than one message.

I believe that this is fixed in commit
a982773dfb6e8efe1bcee90e888f2560ad006fb5. Could you test and confirm,
please?

> I'd be happy to have a notmuch-show-forward-thread or
> notmuch-show-forward-all-expanded-messages or
> notmuch-show-forward-messages-from-region capability, but my elisp-fu is
> weak.  I'd be happy to test if someone wanted to send me a patch though
> :)
>
> Background: one of the reasons that people often give for the terrible
> e-mail practice of top-posting-with-all-previous-messages-trailing is
> that they want to be able to send a message to someone else and have
> them be able to see the whole thread (never mind that these kind of
> reverse-chronological forwarded messages are difficult to read).  I'd
> like to be able to respond to those claims with something like
> "reasonable MUAs should let you easily forward all messages in a thread
> if you want to catch someone up."
>
> I consider notmuch-emacs a reasonable MUA :)
>
> thanks everyone for notmuch,
>
>         --dkg

Re: forwarding multiple messages from notmuch emacs

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

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On Sun 2016-04-10 15:26:35 +0100, David Edmondson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23 2013, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> hi notmuch folks--
>>
>> i'd like to be able to forward several messages from a given thread (up
>> to and including the whole thread) to someone else.  I use
>> notmuch-emacs.
>>
>> I don't think it's possible to do this at the moment;
>> notmuch-show-forward-message just forwards the message where the point
>> is located, even if the current region covers more than one message.
>
> I believe that this is fixed in commit
> a982773dfb6e8efe1bcee90e888f2560ad006fb5. Could you test and confirm,
> please?

Many years later, i follow up on this message -- yes, it does work!  in
particular, 'F' invokes notmuch-show-forward-open-messages, which is
exactly what i want it to do.  Thank you, dme!

sorry for the lag in following up.

      --dkg

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