Set "From" based on "To" when replying

Set "From" based on "To" when replying

[Simon Campese]

Dear Community,

I've got my own domain and when registering or shopping at some website,
I always use email addresses of the form "websitename@mydomain.org", so
for example I use "amazon@mydomain.org" when shopping at amazon. The
reason for this is categorizing incoming mail on the one hand, and
immediately being able to spot the source of spam on the other hand. 

I would like to implement the following behaviour: When replying to a
mail that has "something@mydomain.org" in the "To"-header, I would like
to have the "From"-header of the reply to be automatically set to this
address. 

Is there some kind of reply-hook in notmuch where one could put an
appropriate function? 


Thank you very much for your help,

Simon

Re: Set "From" based on "To" when replying

[Jani Nikula]

On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:35:10 +0100, Simon Campese <notmuchmail_org@campese.de> wrote:
> Dear Community,
> 
> I've got my own domain and when registering or shopping at some website,
> I always use email addresses of the form "websitename@mydomain.org", so
> for example I use "amazon@mydomain.org" when shopping at amazon. The
> reason for this is categorizing incoming mail on the one hand, and
> immediately being able to spot the source of spam on the other hand. 
> 
> I would like to implement the following behaviour: When replying to a
> mail that has "something@mydomain.org" in the "To"-header, I would like
> to have the "From"-header of the reply to be automatically set to this
> address. 
> 
> Is there some kind of reply-hook in notmuch where one could put an
> appropriate function? 

Do you have all those email addresses in the user.other_email
configuration option in your ~/.notmuch-config? It should do the trick,
though I can see that it might get a bit tedious if you use plenty of
email addresses like above.

BR,
Jani.

Re: Set "From" based on "To" when replying

[Jameson Graef Rollins]

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On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:26:53 +0200, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
> Do you have all those email addresses in the user.other_email
> configuration option in your ~/.notmuch-config? It should do the trick,
> though I can see that it might get a bit tedious if you use plenty of
> email addresses like above.

Yeah, I think this is the point: you want "*@mydomain.org" to be one of
the user.other_email.  I don't see why that couldn't be done with a
little work in notmuch-reply.c.  I wouldn't mind seeing this
functionality as well, actually.

jamie.

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Re: Set "From" based on "To" when replying

[Tomi Ollila]

On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:35:10 +0100, Simon Campese <notmuchmail_org@campese.de> wrote:
> Dear Community,
> 
> I've got my own domain and when registering or shopping at some website,
> I always use email addresses of the form "websitename@mydomain.org", so
> for example I use "amazon@mydomain.org" when shopping at amazon. The
> reason for this is categorizing incoming mail on the one hand, and
> immediately being able to spot the source of spam on the other hand. 
> 
> I would like to implement the following behaviour: When replying to a
> mail that has "something@mydomain.org" in the "To"-header, I would like
> to have the "From"-header of the reply to be automatically set to this
> address. 
> 
> Is there some kind of reply-hook in notmuch where one could put an
> appropriate function? 

You could (also) check this (or some other with same name)

https://github.com/altruizine/gnus-alias/blob/master/gnus-alias.el

( should not be gnus-spesific )

I've planned to take a look and write a wiki page but I don't
promise doing any of that soon...

> Thank you very much for your help,
> 
> Simon

Tomi

Re: Set "From" based on "To" when replying

[Simon Campese]

On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:54:07 +0200, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> wrote:
> You could (also) check this (or some other with same name)
> 
> https://github.com/altruizine/gnus-alias/blob/master/gnus-alias.el


Thanks for the link, but this method is interactive. I want something
automatic. Nevertheless a nice thing to have when composing emails.


Best,

Simon

Re: Set "From" based on "To" when replying

[Istvan Marko]

Simon Campese <notmuchmail_org-W/QFD0wfgqiELgA04lAiVw@public.gmane.org>
writes:

> I would like to implement the following behaviour: When replying to a
> mail that has "something-3Q2Tfjf0mexg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org" in the "To"-header, I would like
> to have the "From"-header of the reply to be automatically set to this
> address. 

message-alternative-emails and message-dont-reply-to-names might help to
handle this.

-- 
	Istvan

Re: Set "From" based on "To" when replying

[Simon Campese]

> Yeah, I think this is the point: you want "*@mydomain.org" to be one of
> the user.other_email.  I don't see why that couldn't be done with a
> little work in notmuch-reply.c.  I wouldn't mind seeing this
> functionality as well, actually.

So here's my shabby solution (pasted from my .emacs):

;;automatically take From: from To: if mail was sent to .*@mydomain.org

(defun notmuch-show-reply-sender-mod ()
  (interactive)
(if (string-match ".*@campese.de" (notmuch-show-get-header :To))
(notmuch-mua-reply (notmuch-show-get-message-id) (notmuch-show-get-header :To)
nil) (notmuch-show-reply-sender)))

(defun notmuch-show-reply-mod ()
  (interactive)
(if (string-match ".*@campese.de" (notmuch-show-get-header :To))
(notmuch-mua-reply (notmuch-show-get-message-id) (notmuch-show-get-header :To) t)
(notmuch-show-reply)))

(define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "r" 'notmuch-show-reply-sender-mod)
(define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "R" 'notmuch-show-reply-mod)

If it sees "@mydomain.org" in the 'To'-header, it copies the whole
"To:"-header to the "From:" header when replying. This works as long as
I'm the only one in the "To:"-header, which usually is the case (I only
use this "special" email addreses when registering at online-shops,
forums, etc. to be able to easily track where spammers got my email
from.

I totally agree that a clean solution would be regular expressions in
the primary_email and other_email fields in notmuch-config.

Anyone up for implementing this? :-)

Best,

Simon