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diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-mua.el b/emacs/notmuch-mua.el
index 53802d26..00cd9808 100644
--- a/emacs/notmuch-mua.el
+++ b/emacs/notmuch-mua.el
@@ -346,10 +346,25 @@ the From: address first."
If PROMPT-FOR-SENDER is non-nil, the user will be prompted for
the From: address first. If REPLY-ALL is non-nil, the message
will be addressed to all recipients of the source message."
+
+;; In current emacs (24.3) select-active-regions is set to t by
+;; default. The reply insertion code sets the region to the quoted
+;; message to make it easy to delete (kill-region or C-w). These two
+;; things combine to put the quoted message in the primary selection.
+;;
+;; This is not what the user wanted and is a privacy risk (accidental
+;; pasting of the quoted message). We can avoid some of the problems
+;; by let-binding select-active-regions to nil. This fixes if the
+;; primary selection was previously in a non-emacs window but not if
+;; it was in an emacs window. To avoid the problem in the latter case
+;; we deactivate mark.
+
(let ((sender
(when prompt-for-sender
- (notmuch-mua-prompt-for-sender))))
- (notmuch-mua-reply query-string sender reply-all)))
+ (notmuch-mua-prompt-for-sender)))
+ (select-active-regions nil))
+ (notmuch-mua-reply query-string sender reply-all)
+ (deactivate-mark)))
(defun notmuch-mua-send-and-exit (&optional arg)
(interactive "P")