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### 12.6 How can I force Rmail to reply to the sender of a message, but not the other recipients?

Ron Isaacson says: When you hit <r> to reply in Rmail, by default it CCs all of the original recipients (everyone on the original ‘`To`’ and ‘`CC`’ lists). With a prefix argument (i.e., typing `C-u` before <r>), it replies only to the sender. However, going through the whole `C-u` business every time you want to reply is a pain. This is the best fix I've been able to come up with:

         (defun rmail-reply-t ()
           "Reply only to the sender of the current message. (See rmail-reply.)"
           (interactive)
           (rmail-reply t))

         (add-hook 'rmail-mode-hook
           (lambda ()
             (define-key rmail-mode-map "r" 'rmail-reply-t)
             (define-key rmail-mode-map "R" 'rmail-reply)))