From: Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com>
To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org, david@tethera.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] notmuch reply bugfix & reply to sender only
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Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:01:30 +0000
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Hello


> Bikeshedding topic #1: How about making replying to just the sender the default
> in "notmuch reply", and having --reply-all option (instead of --no-reply-all)?

In id:"87pqn5cg4g.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org" cworth suggested using
--reply-to=sender vs. --reply-to=all (keeping the latter the default).

(This was in response to a patch set I submitted implementing a
reply-to-sender option (*))

> Bikeshedding topic #2: How about binding 'r' to reply to just the sender by
> default, and making 'R' reply-all (instead of vice versa)?

Personally I would prefer this but it is easy to customise.

However, one more significant choice is what to do on reply-to-sender to
an email from the user himself. My patch used the following logic: look
at the reply-to, from , to, cc lines until you find a non-user address
and use that line for the reply. My recollection is that this is roughly
what mutt does.

At least for the common "from user" cases mutt does 
reply-to-one : just to to: person
group-reply: to to: and cc: people

Best wishes

Mark

(*) I have a version of that patch-set which applies to master if that
would be useful to anyone, and I recently started writing tests in
preparation for re-submitting.