- Note that the contents of the index are sufficient to roughly
- reconstruct the cleartext of the message itself, so please ensure
- that the notmuch index itself is adequately protected. DO NOT USE
+ Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
+ have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
+ message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
+ encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
+ If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
+ session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
+ run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
+ in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
+
+ Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
+ cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
+ index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE