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<h3 class="section">8.2 Replying to Mail</h3>
<p><a name="index-g_t_0040command_007bmhl_007d-1051"></a><a name="index-g_t_0040file_007bmhl_002ereply_007d-1052"></a><a name="index-MH-commands_002c-_0040command_007bmhl_007d-1053"></a><a name="index-files_002c-_0040file_007bmhl_002ereply_007d-1054"></a><a name="index-replying-1055"></a><a name="index-mh_002dreply-1056"></a><a name="index-r-1057"></a>
To compose a reply to a message, use the <kbd>r</kbd> (<code>mh-reply</code>)
command.
<p>When you reply to a message, you are first prompted with `<samp><span class="samp">Reply
to whom?</span></samp>'. You have several choices here.
<blockquote>
<p><table summary=""><!-- @headitem Response @tab Reply Goes To -->
<!-- XXX @headitem not yet supported by SourceForge's texi2pdf. -->
<tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="20%"><b>Response</b> </td><td valign="top" width="80%"><b>Reply Goes To</b>
<!-- -->
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="20%"><kbd>from</kbd>
</td><td valign="top" width="80%">
The person who sent the message. This is the default, so <RET> is
sufficient.
<!-- -->
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="20%"><kbd>to</kbd>
</td><td valign="top" width="80%">
Replies to the sender, plus all recipients in the `<samp><span class="samp">To:</span></samp>' header field.
<!-- -->
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="20%"><kbd>cc</kbd><br><kbd>all</kbd>
</td><td valign="top" width="80%">
Forms a reply to the addresses in the `<samp><span class="samp">Mail-Followup-To:</span></samp>' header
field if one exists; otherwise forms a reply to the sender, plus all
recipients.
<br></td></tr></table>
</blockquote>
<p><a name="index-g_t_0040command_007brepl_007d-1058"></a><a name="index-MH-commands_002c-_0040command_007brepl_007d-1059"></a><a name="index-mh_002dreply_002ddefault_002dreply_002dto-1060"></a>
Depending on your answer, <samp><span class="command">repl</span></samp><a rel="footnote" href="#fn-1" name="fnd-1"><sup>1</sup></a> is given a different argument to form your reply.
Specifically, a choice of <kbd>from</kbd> or none at all runs `<samp><span class="samp">repl
-nocc all</span></samp>', and a choice of <kbd>to</kbd> runs `<samp><span class="samp">repl -cc to</span></samp>'. Finally,
either <kbd>cc</kbd> or <kbd>all</kbd> runs `<samp><span class="samp">repl -cc all -nocc me</span></samp>'. If you
find that most of the time you specify one of these choices when you
reply to a message, you can change the option
<code>mh-reply-default-reply-to</code> from its default value of
`<samp><span class="samp">Prompt</span></samp>' to one of the choices listed above. You can always edit
the recipients in the draft.
<p><a name="index-g_t_0040samp_007brepl_003a_007d-MH-profile-component-1061"></a><a name="index-MH-profile-component_002c-_0040samp_007brepl_003a_007d-1062"></a><a name="index-MH_002dLetter-mode-1063"></a><a name="index-MH_002dShow-mode-1064"></a><a name="index-draft-1065"></a><a name="index-modes_002c-MH_002dLetter-1066"></a><a name="index-modes_002c-MH_002dShow-1067"></a>
Two windows are then created. One window contains the message to which
you are replying in an MH-Show buffer. Your draft, in MH-Letter mode
(see <a href="Editing-Drafts.html#Editing-Drafts">Editing Drafts</a>), is in the other window. If the reply draft
was not one that you expected, check the things that affect the
behavior of <samp><span class="command">repl</span></samp> which include the `<samp><span class="samp">repl:</span></samp>' profile
component and the <samp><span class="file">replcomps</span></samp> and <samp><span class="file">replgroupcomps</span></samp> files.
<p>If you supply a prefix argument (as in <kbd>C-u r</kbd>), the message you
are replying to is inserted in your reply after having first been run
through <samp><span class="command">mhl</span></samp> with the format file <samp><span class="file">mhl.reply</span></samp>. See
<samp><span class="command">mhl</span></samp>(1) or the section
<a href="http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/shomes.html#Usisho">Using mhl</a> in the MH
book to see how you can modify the default <samp><span class="file">mhl.reply</span></samp> file.
<p><a name="index-mh_002dyank_002dbehavior-1068"></a>
Alternatively, you can customize the option <code>mh-yank-behavior</code>
and choose one of its `<samp><span class="samp">Automatically</span></samp>' variants to do the same
thing. See <a href="Inserting-Letter.html#Inserting-Letter">Inserting Letter</a>. If you do so, the prefix argument has
no effect.
<p>Another way to include the message automatically in your draft is to
use `<samp><span class="samp">repl: -filter repl.filter</span></samp>' in your MH profile.
<p><a name="index-mh_002dreply_002dshow_002dmessage_002dflag-1069"></a>
If you include the message automatically, you can hide the MH-Show
buffer by turning off the option <code>mh-reply-show-message-flag</code>.
<p>If you wish to customize the header or other parts of the reply draft,
please see <samp><span class="command">repl</span></samp>(1) and <code>mh-format</code>(5).
<div class="footnote">
<hr>
<h4>Footnotes</h4><p class="footnote"><small>[<a name="fn-1" href="#fnd-1">1</a>]</small> See the section
<a href="http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/reprep.html">Replying to Messages: repl</a> in
the MH book.</p>
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