diff --git a/NEWS.org b/NEWS.org
index 401772d6..50094bd9 100644
--- a/NEWS.org
+++ b/NEWS.org
@@ -74,12 +74,14 @@
 
     - There's a new function ~mu4e-compose-wide-reply~ (bound to =W=) which does a
       wide-reply, a.k.a., 'reply to all'. So ~mu4e-compose-reply-recipients~ is
-      not needed anymore and has been obsoleted (and doesn't do anything
+      not needed anymore and has been obsoleted (and doesn't do anything).
+      ~mu4e-compose-reply-ignore-address~ is no longer supported, use
+      ~message-prune-recipient-rules~ instead.
 
     - The special mailing list handling is gone; ~mu4e-compose-reply~ and
       ~mu4e-compose-wide-reply~ should take care of that. There's also
-      ~message-reply-to-function~ you can customize for ultimate control; see [[info:(message) Reply][info
-      (message) Reply]] for details.
+      ~message-reply-to-function~ for ultimate control; see [[info:(message)
+      Reply][info (message) Reply]] for details.
 
     - ~mu4e-compose-in-new-frame~ has been generalized (in a backward-compatible
       way) to ~mu4e-compose-switch~, which lets you decide whether a message
diff --git a/mu4e/mu4e-compose.el b/mu4e/mu4e-compose.el
index 0a502d11..10feb456 100644
--- a/mu4e/mu4e-compose.el
+++ b/mu4e/mu4e-compose.el
@@ -177,19 +177,6 @@ the place to do that."
   :type 'hook
   :group 'mu4e-compose)
 
-(defcustom mu4e-compose-reply-ignore-address
-  '("no-?reply")
-  "Addresses to prune when doing wide replies.
-
-This can be a regexp matching the address, a list of regexps or a
-predicate function. A value of nil keeps all the addresses."
-  :type '(choice
-          (const nil)
-          function
-          string
-          (repeat string))
-  :group 'mu4e-compose)
-
 (defcustom mu4e-compose-dont-reply-to-self nil
   "If non-nil, do not include self.
 
diff --git a/mu4e/mu4e-obsolete.el b/mu4e/mu4e-obsolete.el
index 6a2fb1f5..8cde37dc 100644
--- a/mu4e/mu4e-obsolete.el
+++ b/mu4e/mu4e-obsolete.el
@@ -252,10 +252,17 @@
 
 (make-obsolete-variable 'mu4e-contact-rewrite-function
                         "mu4e-contact-process-function (see docstring)"
-                        "mu4e 1.3.2")
+                        "1.3.2")
 (make-obsolete-variable 'mu4e-compose-complete-ignore-address-regexp
                         "mu4e-contact-process-function (see docstring)"
-                        "mu4e 1.3.2")
+                        "1.3.2")
+
+(make-obsolete-variable 'mu4e-compose-reply-recipients
+                        "use mu4e-compose-reply / mu4e-compose-wide-reply"
+                        "1.11.23")
+(make-obsolete-variable 'mu4e-compose-reply-ignore-address
+                        "see: message-prune-recipient-rules" "1.11.23")
+
 ;; calendar
 (define-obsolete-function-alias 'mu4e-icalendar-setup #'ignore '"1.11.22")