Replying to a message and deciding recipients

While you specify addresses of the To: and Cc: field for a new message by yourself, addresses are automatically prepared for a reply message.

For a reply message, Mew prepares addresses for the To: and Cc: fields according to the following rules:

If From: of the message to be replied is not from me:

Reply-To: doesn't exist in the message to be replied

Copy From: of the message to be replied to To: (1)

Copy To: and Cc: of the message to be replied to Cc: (2)

Reply-To: exists in the message to be replied

Copy From: and Reply-To: of the message to be replied to To: (3)

Copy To: and Cc: of the message to be replied to Cc: (4)

If From: of a message to be replied is from me:

Copy To: of the message to be replied to To: (5)

Copy Cc: of the message to be replied to Cc: (6)

If there are multiple entries for a certain address, they are uniquefied. Your addresses are automatically removed. Addresses ended with ":;", which stands for anonymous recipients, are automatically removed.

You can customize which fields are copied in the case (1)-(6) with the following variables:

• (1) `mew-noreplyto-to-list'
• (2) `mew-noreplyto-cc-list'
• (3) `mew-replyto-to-list'
• (4) `mew-replyto-cc-list'
• (5) `mew-fromme-to-list'
• (6) `mew-fromme-cc-list'

If you want to reply only to the address specified by Reply-To:, configure as follows:

(setq mew-replyto-to-list '("Reply-To:"))
(setq mew-replyto-cc-list nil)

If `a' or `A' is executed with `C-u', From: of the message to be replied is copied to To:, and Cc: becomes empty. You can use this to reply the sender only.