Hi Doug,

Doug Penner <darwinsurvivor@gmail.com> writes:
> I am in the process of trying to migrate from alpine (which handles 
> separate accounts *very* distinctly) to notmuch (which combines them). I 
> have no problem with incoming e-mails being combined (actually looking 
> forward to it) but am having a little trouble configuring outgoing e-mails 
> to work correctly.
>
> I am currently using the vim interface (never like emacs, sorry) and have 
> noticed that when replying, notmuch correctly uses the appropriate e-mail 
> address (as defined in the To: or Cc: fields of the original), but does 
> not have the ability to change the sender's "name".
>
> Ex: My "name" for my gmail account is "Doug Penner" (as you probably 
> noticed with this on), but I also manage some other accounts where I do 
> not go by this name. I manage a local organization's e-mail and need my 
> sending name to be non-personal (ex: "This organization's Webmaster"). I 
> can manually change the name before sending, but this gets very 
> repetitive and annoying.
>
>
> Is there any way to add names to the "alternate e-mails" setting in the 
> .notmuch-config file? 

I don't think so. I use some elisp hooks within emacs interface for
similar functionality but this wouldn't help in your case.

> I've tried switching to the standard "My Name" <e-mail> and it then
> completely fails to even detect that e-mail address as mine.

This should not be too hard to implement. There are gmime functions for
email address manipulations which can be used to parse email addresses
from .notmuch-config and to separate names from addresses.

Regards,
-Michal