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* Allow indexing cleartext of encrypted messages (v2)
@ 2016-01-20  2:52 Daniel Kahn Gillmor
  2016-01-20  2:52 ` [PATCH v2 01/16] add util/search-path.{c, h} to test for executables in $PATH Daniel Kahn Gillmor
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From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor @ 2016-01-20  2:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Notmuch Mail

This is the second draft of the series initially announced in
id:1449718786-28000-1-git-send-email-dkg@fifthhorseman.net:

> Notmuch currently doesn't index the cleartext of encrypted mail.  This
> is the right choice by default, because the index is basically
> cleartext-equivalent, and we wouldn't want every indexed mailstore to
> leak the contents of its encrypted mails.
> 
> However, if a notmuch user has their index in a protected location,
> they may prefer the convenience of being able to search the contents
> of (at least some of) their encrypted mail.
> 
> This series of patches enables notmuch to index the cleartext of
> specific encrypted messages when they're being added via "notmuch new"
> or "notmuch insert", via a new --try-decrypt flag.
> 
> If --try-decrypt is used, and decryption is successful for part of a
> message, the message gets an additional "index-decrypted" tag.  If
> decryption of part of a message fails, the message gets an additional
> "index-decryption-failed" tag.

v2 addresses the concerns raised from the helpful feedback on the
previous series, and adds a notmuch_indexopts_t object that can be
used to declare options for indexing messages, including a
"try_decrypt" boolean.

Additionally, this series adds a new function to libnotmuch:

  notmuch_message_reindex (notmuch_message_t *message,
                           notmuch_indexopts_t *indexopts)

Which allows user of the library to adjust the indexing options of a
given message.

The CLI is additionally augmented with a new notmuch subcommand,
"notmuch reindex", which also has a --try-decrypt flag.

So a user who has their message index stored securely and wants to
index the cleartext of all encrypted messages they've received can do
something like:

  notmuch reindex --try-decrypt tag:encrypted and not tag:index-decrypted

Or can clear all indexed cleartext from their database with:

  notmuch reindex tag:encrypted and tag:index-decrypted

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2016-01-20  2:52 Allow indexing cleartext of encrypted messages (v2) Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2016-01-20  2:52 ` [PATCH v2 01/16] add util/search-path.{c, h} to test for executables in $PATH Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2016-01-20  2:52 ` [PATCH v2 02/16] Move crypto.c into libutil Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2016-01-20  2:52 ` [PATCH v2 03/16] make shared crypto code behave library-like Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2016-01-20  2:52 ` [PATCH v2 04/16] Provide _notmuch_crypto_{set,get}_gpg_path Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2016-01-24 15:23   ` Tomi Ollila
2016-01-24 15:55     ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2016-01-20  2:52 ` [PATCH v2 05/16] Use a blank _notmuch_crypto to choose the default gpg_path Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2016-01-20  2:52 ` [PATCH v2 06/16] Prefer gpg2 in the test suite if available Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2016-01-24 15:25   ` Tomi Ollila
2016-01-24 16:03     ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2016-01-20  2:52 ` [PATCH v2 07/16] create a notmuch_indexopts_t index options object Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2016-01-20  2:52 ` [PATCH v2 08/16] reorganize indexing of multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2016-01-20  2:52 ` [PATCH v2 09/16] index encrypted parts when asked Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2016-01-20  2:52 ` [PATCH v2 10/16] Add n_d_add_message_with_indexopts (extension of n_d_add_message) Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2016-01-20  2:52 ` [PATCH v2 11/16] add --try-decrypt to notmuch insert Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2016-01-20  2:52 ` [PATCH v2 12/16] add --try-decrypt to notmuch new Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2016-01-20  2:52 ` [PATCH v2 13/16] add indexopts to notmuch python bindings Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2016-01-20  2:52 ` [PATCH v2 14/16] test indexing cleartext version of delivered messages Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2016-01-20  2:52 ` [PATCH v2 15/16] added notmuch_message_reindex Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2016-01-20  2:52 ` [PATCH v2 16/16] add "notmuch reindex" subcommand Daniel Kahn Gillmor

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