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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
fccebbaeef crypto: add --decrypt=nostash to avoid stashing session keys
Here's the configuration choice for people who want a cleartext index,
but don't want stashed session keys.

Interestingly, this "nostash" decryption policy is actually the same
policy that should be used by "notmuch show" and "notmuch reply",
since they never modify the index or database when they are invoked
with --decrypt.

We take advantage of this parallel to tune the behavior of those
programs so that we're not requesting session keys from GnuPG during
"show" and "reply" that we would then otherwise just throw away.
2017-12-08 08:08:47 -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
181d4091c4 cli/new, insert, reindex: update documentation for --decrypt=auto
we also include --decrypt=auto in the tab completion.
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
35456d4b0c cli/new: add --try-decrypt=(true|false)
Enable override of the index.try_decrypt setting during "notmuch new"
on a per-invocation basis.

We update the documentation and tab completion, and also add a test.
2017-10-21 19:58:32 -03:00
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
6499fce391 doc: make SEE ALSO references one-per-line
This will make future diffs cleaner, make it easier to keep them
alphabetical, and make it easier to scan and search the documentation
sources.
2017-10-18 22:36:39 -03:00
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
87bdfbc91f Fix orthography 2017-07-18 06:50:44 -03:00
David Bremner
0ca7900727 cli/new: document new exit code
It seems important to give the numeric return code for people writing
scripts. Hopefully deviations from this convention are rare.
2016-11-25 22:44:05 -04:00
David Bremner
99d351360b doc: make notmuch-new summary line more generic
Since 'notmuch new' now takes multiple options, it's confusing to show
only one of them in the summary.
2014-04-19 14:29:06 +09:00
David Bremner
d736260385 doc: convert sphinx based docs
This is the output from sphinx-quickstart, massaged a bit, along with
our existing man pages converted to rst.

A skeleton notmuch-emacs manual is also included. It is not suitable
for end user use yet.
2014-03-09 10:41:08 -03:00