On Tue, Apr 23 2013, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > hi notmuch folks-- > > i'd like to be able to forward several messages from a given thread (up > to and including the whole thread) to someone else. I use > notmuch-emacs. > > I don't think it's possible to do this at the moment; > notmuch-show-forward-message just forwards the message where the point > is located, even if the current region covers more than one message. I believe that this is fixed in commit a982773dfb6e8efe1bcee90e888f2560ad006fb5. Could you test and confirm, please? > I'd be happy to have a notmuch-show-forward-thread or > notmuch-show-forward-all-expanded-messages or > notmuch-show-forward-messages-from-region capability, but my elisp-fu is > weak. I'd be happy to test if someone wanted to send me a patch though > :) > > Background: one of the reasons that people often give for the terrible > e-mail practice of top-posting-with-all-previous-messages-trailing is > that they want to be able to send a message to someone else and have > them be able to see the whole thread (never mind that these kind of > reverse-chronological forwarded messages are difficult to read). I'd > like to be able to respond to those claims with something like > "reasonable MUAs should let you easily forward all messages in a thread > if you want to catch someone up." > > I consider notmuch-emacs a reasonable MUA :) > > thanks everyone for notmuch, > > --dkg