Support setting full body for replies about exchangelib HOT 4 CLOSED

Message.replty_all() is just a helper for the common case. If you have more complex requirements for your reply message, I would suggest to either call Message.create_reply() and adjust the returned item as needed:

my_reply = some_item.create_reply(...)
my_reply.body = HTMLBody(...)
my_reply.send()

or create the reply item from scratch exactly as you want it:

from exchangelib import ReplyToItem

my_reply = ReplyToItem(
    account=account,
    reference_item_id=ReferenceItemId(id=some_item.id, changekey=some_item.changekey),
    subject="Some subjectsubject",
    body=HTMLBody(...)
    ....
)
my_reply.send()     

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I understand. I didn't know that the ReplyToItem (and ReplyAllToItem) was already correctly supported and just not fully accessible from the functions.

Personally, I'd probably would prefer extending the available functions so that they can be more versatile. However, that might also introduce backwards compatibility issues, and you might also have other good reasons for that.

Your first suggested method would also work based on the create_reply_all method, right?

Then, that looks like a good way; thank you very much for the support and suggestions!

I'll probably just play around to see how the new_body and body attributes of that class interact with each other, then.

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Yes, the solution would be the same for create_reply_all().

While it would be possible to add all relevant options to the helper methods, it would be more confusing than helpful, I think, in case of new_body and body where it makes sense to provide one or the other, but not both.

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Alright.

For the helper methods, that could be treated within the method, but especially as the argument body was previously mapped to new_body of the item object, changing that (or extending, or ...) would create more confusion.

I am closing this, then!

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