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6 notmuch-properties - notmuch message property conventions and documen‐
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10 notmuch count property:<key>=<value>
11 notmuch search property:<key>=<value>
13 notmuch show property:<key>=<value>
15 notmuch reindex property:<key>=<value>
17 notmuch tag +<tag> property:<key>=<value>
19 notmuch dump --include=properties
21 notmuch restore --include=properties
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25 Several notmuch commands can search for, modify, add or remove proper‐
26 ties associated with specific messages. Properties are key/value
27 pairs, and a message can have more than one key/value pair for the same
28 key.
29 While users can select based on a specific property in their search
31 terms with the prefix property:, the notmuch command-line interface
32 does not provide mechanisms for modifying properties directly to the
33 user.
34 Instead, message properties are expected to be set and used programmat‐
36 ically, according to logic in notmuch itself, or in extensions to it.
37 Extensions to notmuch which make use of properties are encouraged to
39 report the specific properties used to the upstream notmuch project, as
40 a way of avoiding collisions in the property namespace.
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43 Any property with a key that starts with "index." will be removed (and
44 possibly re-set) upon reindexing (see notmuch-reindex(1)).
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47 The following properties are set by notmuch internally in the course of
48 its normal activity.
49 index.decryption
51 If a message contains encrypted content, and notmuch tries to
52 decrypt that content during indexing, it will add the property
53 index.decryption=success when the cleartext was successfully in‐
54 dexed. If notmuch attempts to decrypt any part of a message
55 during indexing and that decryption attempt fails, it will add
56 the property index.decryption=failure to the message.
57 Note that it's possible for a single message to have both in‐
59 dex.decryption=success and index.decryption=failure. Consider
60 an encrypted e-mail message that contains another encrypted
61 e-mail message as an attachment -- if the outer message can be
62 decrypted, but the attached part cannot, then both properties
63 will be set on the message as a whole.
64 If notmuch never tried to decrypt an encrypted message during
66 indexing (which is the default, see index.decrypt in not‐
67 much-config(1)), then this property will not be set on that mes‐
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69 session-key
71 When notmuch-show(1) or notmuch-reply(1) encounters a message
72 with an encrypted part, if notmuch finds a session-key property
73 associated with the message, it will try that stashed session
74 key for decryption.
75 If you do not want to use any stashed session keys that might be
77 present, you should pass those programs --decrypt=false.
78 Using a stashed session key with "notmuch show" will speed up
80 rendering of long encrypted threads. It also allows the user to
81 destroy the secret part of any expired encryption-capable subkey
82 while still being able to read any retained messages for which
83 they have stashed the session key. This enables truly deletable
84 e-mail, since (once the session key and asymmetric subkey are
85 both destroyed) there are no keys left that can be used to de‐
86 crypt any copy of the original message previously stored by an
87 adversary.
88 However, access to the stashed session key for an encrypted mes‐
90 sage permits full byte-for-byte reconstruction of the cleartext
91 message. This includes attachments, cryptographic signatures,
92 and other material that cannot be reconstructed from the index
93 alone.
94 See index.decrypt in notmuch-config(1) for more details about
96 how to set notmuch's policy on when to store session keys.
97 The session key should be in the ASCII text form produced by
99 GnuPG. For OpenPGP, that consists of a decimal representation
100 of the hash algorithm used (identified by number from RFC 4880,
101 e.g. 9 means AES-256) followed by a colon, followed by a hexa‐
102 decimal representation of the algorithm-specific key. For exam‐
103 ple, an AES-128 key might be stashed in a notmuch property as:
104 session-key=7:14B16AF65536C28AF209828DFE34C9E0.
105 index.repaired
107 Some messages arrive in forms that are confusing to view; they
108 can be mangled by mail transport agents, or the sending mail
109 user agent may structure them in a way that is confusing. If
110 notmuch knows how to both detect and repair such a problematic
111 message, it will do so during indexing.
112 If it applies a message repair during indexing, it will use the
114 index.repaired property to note the type of repair(s) it per‐
115 formed.
116 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display indicates
118 that when indexing the cleartext of an encrypted message, not‐
119 much skipped over a "legacy-display" text/rfc822-headers part
120 that it found in that message, since it was able to index the
121 built-in protected headers directly.
122 index.repaired=mixedup indicates the repair of a "Mixed Up" en‐
124 crypted PGP/MIME message, a mangling typically produced by Mi‐
125 crosoft's Exchange MTA. See
126 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-dkg-openpgp-pgpmime-message-mangling
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