Re: [RFC-PATCH 1/2] send-email: new option to quote an email and reply to

Matthieu Moy [off-list ref] writes:

This should work, but sounds like too much of overloading of
--in-reply-to IMHO: if given a message id, it would only add a reference
to this message-id, but if given a file, it would also modify the To:
and Cc: list.

Not a strong objection, though.

Well, with your "that is the plan indeed", the option would behave
the same whether given a message ID or a filename, no?

But I do agree that those who have accustomed to the behaviour of
--in-reply-to that does not mess with To/Cc:, such a behaviour
change is not desirable.

If we are adding a new --reply-to-email=<file|id>, it should behave
as a superset of --in-reply-to (i.e. it should set In-Reply-to:
using the message ID of the e-mail we are replying to), though.

quoted

In the future, you might even teach send-email, perhaps via a user
configurable hook, a way to get to the message header and text given a
message-id, and when it happens, the same logic can be used when
--in-reply-to is given a message-id (i.e. you go from the id to the
message and find the addresses you would To/Cc: your message).

That is the plan indeed. Fetching from gmane for example should be
rather easy in perl, and would be really convenient!