It's defaulted to message-cite-original in Emacs 24, and may have been back to Emacs 22.3 ("This variable was introduced, or its default value was changed, in version 22.3 of Emacs."). I can re-work the patch to fall back to message-cite-original if it's been unset, if that's preferred. - Todd >>>>> "DB" == David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes: DB> Hi Todd; DB> Thanks for the patch. What happens to the behaviour of notmuch-reply for DB> people that have not customized this variable? DB> d