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Jani Nikula
ff4e81ac57 doc: cross-reference notmuch man pages with actual links
Add internal hyperlink targets for man pages and cross-reference them
using the any role reference. There are a number of alternatives to
accomplish this, but this seems like the combination that retains the
man page section number and the same boldface style in the man pages.

As a bonus, we get sanity checking on the links; for example
notmuch-search-terms.rst had a reference to notmuch-properties(1)
i.e. the wrong section.

The obvious semantic follow-up change would be to only have meaningful
"see also" references instead of having them all everywhere.
2021-05-22 16:38:56 -03:00
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
4b1a8fd183 index: repair "Mixed Up" messages before indexing.
When encountering a message that has been mangled in the "mixed up"
way by an intermediate MTA, notmuch should instead repair it and index
the repaired form.

When it does this, it also associates the index.repaired=mixedup
property with the message.  If a problem is found with this repair
process, or an improved repair process is proposed later, this should
make it easy for people to reindex the relevant message.  The property
will also hopefully make it easier to diagnose this particular problem
in the future.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
2019-09-15 19:07:06 -04:00
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
9829533e92 index: avoid indexing legacy-display parts
When we notice a legacy-display part during indexing, it makes more
sense to avoid indexing it as part of the message body.

Given that the protected subject will already be indexed, there is no
need to index this part at all, so we skip over it.

If this happens during indexing, we set a property on the message:
index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
2019-09-01 08:45:30 -03:00
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1b29822cf5 repair: set up codebase for repair functionality
This adds no functionality directly, but is a useful starting point
for adding new repair functionality.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
2019-09-01 08:20:25 -03:00
Jani Nikula
e5e252de55 doc: unify definition list usage across man pages
Make all parameter descriptions etc. use reStructuredText definition
lists with uniform style and indentation. Remove redundant indentation
from around the lists. Remove blank lines between term lines and
definition blocks. Use four spaces for indentation.

This is almost completely whitespace and paragraph reflow changes.
2017-12-31 09:06:11 -04:00
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
29648a137c crypto: actually stash session keys when decrypt=true
If you're going to store the cleartext index of an encrypted message,
in most situations you might just as well store the session key.
Doing this storage has efficiency and recoverability advantages.

Combined with a schedule of regular OpenPGP subkey rotation and
destruction, this can also offer security benefits, like "deletable
e-mail", which is the store-and-forward analog to "forward secrecy".

But wait, i hear you saying, i have a special need to store cleartext
indexes but it's really bad for me to store session keys!  Maybe
(let's imagine) i get lots of e-mails with incriminating photos
attached, and i want to be able to search for them by the text in the
e-mail, but i don't want someone with access to the index to be
actually able to see the photos themselves.

Fret not, the next patch in this series will support your wacky
uncommon use case.
2017-12-08 08:08:47 -04:00
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
f845fb2a51 cli/show, reply: document use of stashed session keys in notmuch-properties
The stashed session keys are stored internally as notmuch properties.
So a user or developer who is reading about those properties might
want to understand how they fit into the bigger picture.

Note here that decrypting with a stored session key no longer needs
-decrypt for "notmuch show" and "notmuch reply".
2017-12-08 08:08:46 -04:00
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
d3964e81ac indexing: Change from try_decrypt to decrypt
the command-line interface for indexing (reindex, new, insert) used
--try-decrypt; and the configuration records used index.try_decrypt.
But by comparison with "show" and "reply", there doesn't seem to be
any reason for the "try" prefix.

This changeset adjusts the command-line interface and the
configuration interface.

For the moment, i've left indexopts_{set,get}_try_decrypt alone.  The
subsequent changeset will address those.
2017-12-08 08:05:53 -04:00
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
a990585408 crypto: use stashed session-key properties for decryption, if available
When doing any decryption, if the notmuch database knows of any
session keys associated with the message in question, try them before
defaulting to using default symmetric crypto.

This changeset does the primary work in _notmuch_crypto_decrypt, which
grows some new parameters to handle it.

The primary advantage this patch offers is a significant speedup when
rendering large encrypted threads ("notmuch show") if session keys
happen to be cached.

Additionally, it permits message composition without access to
asymmetric secret keys ("notmuch reply"); and it permits recovering a
cleartext index when reindexing after a "notmuch restore" for those
messages that already have a session key stored.

Note that we may try multiple decryptions here (e.g. if there are
multiple session keys in the database), but we will ignore and throw
away all the GMime errors except for those that come from last
decryption attempt.  Since we don't necessarily know at the time of
the decryption that this *is* the last decryption attempt, we'll ask
for the errors each time anyway.

This does nothing if no session keys are stashed in the database,
which is fine.  Actually stashing session keys in the database will
come as a subsequent patch.
2017-12-04 21:48:31 -04:00
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
d0da7a0a1c config: define new option index.try_decrypt
By default, notmuch won't try to decrypt on indexing.  With this
patch, we make it possible to indicate a per-database preference using
the config variable "index.try_decrypt", which by default will be
false.

At indexing time, the database needs some way to know its internal
defaults for how to index encrypted parts.  It shouldn't be contingent
on an external config file (since that can't be retrieved from the
database object itself), so we store it in the database.

This behaves similarly to the query.* configurations, which are also
stored in the database itself, so we're not introducing any new
dependencies by requiring that it be stored in the database.
2017-10-21 19:54:33 -03:00
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
4dfcc8c9b2 crypto: index encrypted parts when indexopts try_decrypt is set.
If we see index options that ask us to decrypt when indexing a
message, and we encounter an encrypted part, we'll try to descend into
it.

If we can decrypt, we add the property index.decryption=success.

If we can't decrypt (or recognize the encrypted type of mail), we add
the property index.decryption=failure.

Note that a single message may have both values of the
"index.decryption" property: "success" and "failure".  For example,
consider a message that includes multiple layers of encryption.  If we
manage to decrypt the outer layer ("index.decryption=success"), but
fail on the inner layer ("index.decryption=failure").

Because of the property name, this will be automatically cleared (and
possibly re-set) during re-indexing.  This means it will subsequently
correspond to the actual semantics of the stored index.
2017-10-21 19:53:19 -03:00
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
0bb05ff693 reindex: drop all properties named with prefix "index."
This allows us to create new properties that will be automatically set
during indexing, and cleared during re-indexing, just by choice of
property name.
2017-10-21 19:53:08 -03:00
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
6575b7eb31 doc: add notmuch-properties(7)
We will want a user-facing place to record details about the use of
notmuch properties shortly.  This establishes a new manual page for
that purpose.
2017-10-21 19:52:55 -03:00