From 9479baf6f1242e901e090a72a6ac174dc3649a47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 11:36:34 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: cleartext indexing give a short summary of cleartext indexing of encrypted e-mail messages. --- NEWS | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c2ebb644..895b7627 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -11,6 +11,24 @@ Out-of-tree builds has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using out-of-tree builds. +Encrypted Mail +-------------- + +Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails + + It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in + the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted + e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done + on a per-message basis with the --try-decrypt argument to indexing + commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch + config set index.try_decrypt true". + + Note that the contents of the index are sufficient to roughly + reconstruct the cleartext of the message itself, so please ensure + that the notmuch index itself is adequately protected. DO NOT USE + this feature without considering the security of your index. + + Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11) ===========================