Hi all,

I have a specific example where "notmuch reply" does not set a useful
from: header.  The set is:

1) I have a google apps-for-your-domain address,
   [email protected]

2) There is a group/alias, [email protected] that only accepts mail
   from members

3) [email protected] forwards to [email protected],
   from where I get email with offlineimap.

4) [email protected] and [email protected] are both
   configured as addresses in ~/.notmuch-config with the linaro.org
   address being primary.

When I reply to a mail to [email protected], the guessed address is
[email protected] and unless I change it, the reply bounces,
which is obviously a bit annoying.

Looking at the headers (and the notmuch source),
[email protected] seems to be being found in the Received
headers.  [email protected] is not in any Received header, which
is a bit strange, but in any case I think the code would find
[email protected] first (would it perhaps make more sense to
search backwards through received?  An earlier header is probably closer
to what was intended, in some sense).

[email protected] does appear in a Delivered-To: header, so
maybe those could be considered (it seems that some MTAs add a
Delivered-To header from the envelope address, so it would have some
legitimacy)?  It would work in this case, but only because the
Delivered-To that the canonical.com MTA adds is an internal address
that's not configured as an address for me in notmuch...

Alternatively, *I* wouldn't mind if notmuch stopped trying at all hard,
and just used the primary address if there was nothing matching in
to:/cc: but I guess that wouldn't work on mailing lists at all...

Hm, I guess I've argued myself around to thinking that considering
Delivered-To as a source of potential from addresses would be an
improvement.  What do you guys think?

Cheers,
mwh
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