Feature suggestion. Indexing encrypted mail?

[Jameson Graef Rollins]

On Mon, Apr 07 2014, john.wyzer at gmx.de wrote:
>> confess i haven't been following closely), it wouldn't be much extra
>> effort for someone to implement a filter that strips encryption from the
>> message.  (this might still have the problem mentioned above about also
>> stripping PGP/MIME signatures, but the signatures and the decrypted
>> message itself would remain intact so they could be shown directly by
>> notmuch show without trouble).
>
> I don't understand that. :-(
> This sounds as if the view of the message is not generated from the
> mail storage. Isn't the purpose of the index to find the appropriate
> message file and everything else is generated from that file?

I think that's exactly what Daniel is saying: what's viewed comes from
the message directly, and not from the db.

jamie.
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