[notmuch] indexing encrypted messages (was: OpenPGP support)

Mike Hommey mh+notmuch at glandium.org
Fri Jan 8 00:09:46 PST 2010


On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 03:56:10PM +1300, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins at finestructure.net> [2009.11.26.1901 +1300]:
> > I would really like to start using notmuch with emacs beyond just
> > testing, but I really need to be able to handle/read/send mail with
> > PGP/MIME encoded attachments.  Do folks have any suggestions on how to
> > handle this?  Is there a separate emacs mode that people use for
> > signing/verifying/{de,en}crypting mail buffers, or is this something
> > that is going to have to be integrated into the notmuch mode?  I guess
> > the notmuch-show mode at least will need to do some verifying and
> > decrypting.
> 
> How about indexing GPG-encrypted messages?

That may leak decrypted form in the xapian index, though in a split
manner. But that'd still be a problem IMHO.

Mike


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