mh-e: Replying
8.2 Replying to Mail
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To compose a reply to a message, use the ‘r’ (‘mh-reply’) command.
When you reply to a message, you are first prompted with ‘Reply to
whom?’. You have several choices here.
Response Reply Goes To
‘from’ The person who sent the message. This is the default,
so <RET> is sufficient.
‘to’ Replies to the sender, plus all recipients in the ‘To:’
header field.
‘cc’ Forms a reply to the addresses in the
‘all’ ‘Mail-Followup-To:’ header field if one exists;
otherwise forms a reply to the sender, plus all
recipients.
Depending on your answer, ‘repl’(1) is given a different argument to
form your reply. Specifically, a choice of ‘from’ or none at all runs
‘repl -nocc all’, and a choice of ‘to’ runs ‘repl -cc to’. Finally,
either ‘cc’ or ‘all’ runs ‘repl -cc all -nocc me’. If you find that
most of the time you specify one of these choices when you reply to a
message, you can change the option ‘mh-reply-default-reply-to’ from its
default value of ‘Prompt’ to one of the choices listed above. You can
always edit the recipients in the draft.
Two windows are then created. One window contains the message to
which you are replying in an MH-Show buffer. Your draft, in MH-Letter
mode (
Editing Drafts), is in the other window. If the reply
draft was not one that you expected, check the things that affect the
behavior of ‘repl’ which include the ‘repl:’ profile component and the
‘replcomps’ and ‘replgroupcomps’ files.
If you supply a prefix argument (as in ‘C-u r’), the message you are
replying to is inserted in your reply after having first been run
through ‘mhl’ with the format file ‘mhl.reply’. See ‘mhl’(1) or the
section Using mhl
(http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/shomes.html#Usisho) in the MH
book to see how you can modify the default ‘mhl.reply’ file.
Alternatively, you can customize the option ‘mh-yank-behavior’ and
choose one of its ‘Automatically’ variants to do the same thing.
Inserting Letter. If you do so, the prefix argument has no effect.
Another way to include the message automatically in your draft is to
use ‘repl: -filter repl.filter’ in your MH profile.
If you include the message automatically, you can hide the MH-Show
buffer by turning off the option ‘mh-reply-show-message-flag’.
If you wish to customize the header or other parts of the reply
draft, please see ‘repl’(1) and ‘mh-format’(5).
---------- Footnotes ----------
(1) See the section Replying to Messages: repl
(http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/reprep.html) in the MH book.
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