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From: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>
To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>,
	notmuch mailing list <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: forwarding multiple messages from notmuch emacs
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 15:26:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2k2k5r144.fsf@dme.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fvyhb40x.fsf@alice.fifthhorseman.net>

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-10 14:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-23 16:33 forwarding multiple messages from notmuch emacs Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2013-04-24 18:09 ` Jeremy Nickurak
2013-04-24 18:12   ` Jeremy Nickurak
2013-04-25 12:29     ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2016-04-10 14:26 ` David Edmondson [this message]
2019-06-01  3:38   ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor

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