David Bremner [Mon, 21 May 2018 20:08:56 +0000 (13:08 -0700)]
docs: add initial documentation for notmuch-tag-jump
This is mainly to improve discoverability. It seems that doing
variable cross-references is not easy without using some sphinx
extension/customization.
David Bremner [Mon, 21 May 2018 20:08:53 +0000 (13:08 -0700)]
debian: install info pages as part of elpa (emacs) package
This is a simple way to make the info pages available, since the emacs
package system deals with the annoying bits. If there is many people
who want the info pages outside of emacs, we could consider a separate
binary package, but currently it doesn't seem worthwhile.
Add fancy new feature, which makes "notmuch show" capable of actually
indexing messages that it just decrypted.
This enables a workflow where messages can come in in the background
and be indexed using "--decrypt=auto". But when showing an encrypted
message for the first time, it gets automatically indexed.
This is something of a departure for "notmuch show" -- in particular,
because it requires read/write access to the database. However, this
might be a common use case -- people get mail delivered and indexed in
the background, but only want access to their secret key to happen
when they're directly interacting with notmuch itself.
In such a scenario, they couldn't search newly-delivered, encrypted
messages, but they could search for them once they've read them.
Documentation of this new feature also uses a table form, similar to
that found in the description of index.decrypt in notmuch-config(1).
A notmuch UI that wants to facilitate this workflow while also
offering an interactive search interface might instead make use of
these additional commands while the user is at the console:
Count received encrypted messages (if > 0, there are some things we
haven't yet tried to index, and therefore can't yet search):
notmuch count tag:encrypted and \
not property:index.decryption=success and \
not property:index.decryption=failure
Reindex those messages:
notmuch reindex --try-decrypt=true tag:encrypted and \
not property:index.decryption=success and \
not property:index.decryption=failure
cli/show: reindex when we learned new session keys about a message
If the number of session keys for a given message increased after
running "notmuch show" then we just learned something new that might
let us do automatic decryption. We should reindex this message using
our newfound knowledge.
cli: write session keys to database, if asked to do so
If the decryption policy is NOTMUCH_DECRYPT_TRUE, that means we want
to stash session keys in the database. Note that there is currently
no way from the command line to set it this way, though, so it is not
yet included in the test suite.
The user can already do this manually, of course, but (a) it's nice to
have a convenience function, and (b) exposing this interface means
that someone more clever with a _notmuch_string_map_t than i am can
write a more efficient version if they like, and it will just
accelerate the users of the convenience function.
We've had _notmuch_message_database() internally for a while, and it's
useful. It turns out to be useful on the other side of the library
interface as well (i'll use it later in this series for "notmuch
show"), so we expose it publicly now.
David Bremner [Sun, 29 Apr 2018 23:19:42 +0000 (20:19 -0300)]
test: use --full-scan in T050-new.sh
Wherever the test relies on directories being scanned, this option
should be used to avoid skipping them due to mtimes on directories
matching the database.
David Bremner [Sun, 29 Apr 2018 23:19:41 +0000 (20:19 -0300)]
test: add tests for notmuch new --full-scan
Most of these just check that adding the flag does not break existing
functionality. The one test that does check the full-scan
functionality had to be rewritten to output debugging info.
David Bremner [Sun, 29 Apr 2018 23:19:40 +0000 (20:19 -0300)]
CLI/new: add full-scan option
By default notmuch-new uses directory mtimes to optimize the scanning of
directories for new mail. This option allows turning that optimization
off e.g. for testing or debugging.
David Bremner [Sun, 28 Jan 2018 02:50:42 +0000 (22:50 -0400)]
lib: define specialized get_thread_id for use in thread subquery
The observation is that we are only using the messages to get there
thread_id, which is kindof a pessimal access pattern for the current
notmuch_message_get_thread_id
David Bremner [Tue, 26 Dec 2017 01:03:05 +0000 (21:03 -0400)]
lib: add thread subqueries.
This change allows queries of the form
thread:{from:me} and thread:{from:jian} and not thread:{from:dave}
This is still somewhat brute-force, but it's a big improvement over
both the shell script solution and the previous proposal [1], because it
does not build the whole thread structure just generate a
query. A further potential optimization is to replace the calls to
notmuch with more specialized Xapian code; in particular it's not
likely that reading all of the message metadata is a win here.
Correct URLs that have crept into the notmuch codebase with http://
when https:// is possible.
As part of this conversion, this changeset also indicates the current
preferred upstream URLs for both gmime and sup. the new URLs are
https-enabled, the old ones are not.
This also fixes T310-emacs.sh, thanks to Bremner for catching it.
David Bremner [Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:32:34 +0000 (10:32 -0400)]
test: add known broken test for regexp search of second subject
We expect this to give the same answer as the non-regexp subject
search. It does not because the regexp search relies on the value
slot, which currently contains only one subject.
David Bremner [Wed, 2 May 2018 23:30:51 +0000 (20:30 -0300)]
test: tests for python bindings get_property / get_properties
These roughly replicate the equivalent C tests, although they rely on
the database state created by the former tests, since the python
bindings currently provide read-only access to properties.
David Bremner [Sat, 7 Apr 2018 22:10:51 +0000 (19:10 -0300)]
doc: add a section on quoting to notmuch-search-terms(7)
I think we've diverged enough from the Xapian query parser
that we can't rely on that syntax description [1]. As far as I can
tell, [1] also only discusses quotes in the context of phrases.
David Bremner [Sat, 14 Apr 2018 01:46:09 +0000 (22:46 -0300)]
test: add known broken test for thread ordering from a loop
The previous loop handling code chooses the last message in the
message list, which turns out to be the last in date order.
See the comment in _notmuch_thread_create.
doc: Examples of notmuch-reindex use and crypto policy
Currently, notmuch has the levers needed to set coherent crypto policy
around how cleartext is indexed, which also has an impact on how
messages are rendered. But we don't have a lot of documentation about
how to do sensible things. This is an initial attempt to address
that.
The first example shows a way to selectively index specific messages.
The next two examples are about aligning the existing database with
crypto indexing policy
The default crypto policy is to not index cleartext, and to only
decrypt messages on display when explicitly requested.
The other sensible crypto policy is to index cleartext while stashing
session keys. messages indexed in this way will be searchable, and
will be decrypted on display automatically unless the user explicitly
asks for it to *not* be decrypted.
The policy for indexing *new* messages is stored in the database as
the config variable index.decrypt.
But setting policy for new messages doesn't retroactively affect
already indexed messages.
This patch attempts to document ways that someone can efficiently
align their pre-existing database with their new policy.
I'm not sure this is the right place to document these examples, but i
do want them to be user-facing and relatively easy to find. I'm happy
to entertain suggestions for where else we should put them.
In some cases (e.g. when building a publicly-visible e-mail archive)
it doesn't make any sense to restrict visibility of the message to the
current user account.
This adds a --world-readable boolean option for "notmuch insert", so
that those who want to archive their mail publicly can feed their
archiver with:
notmuch insert --world-readable
Other local delivery agents (postfix's local, and dovecot's lda) all
default to delivery in mode 0600 rather than relying on the user's
umask, so this fix doesn't change the default.
Also, this does not override the user's umask. if the umask is
already set tight, it will not become looser as the result of passing
--world-readable.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
Matthew Lear [Tue, 6 Feb 2018 21:52:01 +0000 (21:52 +0000)]
Clarify the syntax required when searching using timestamps.
Need to be clearer about specifying time ranges using timestamps.
Legacy syntax which predates the date prefix is still supported, but
timestamps used in conjunction with the date prefix require additional
syntax.
No one knows why this invocation is here. it does weird things during
the build. If a developer really wants this behavior, they can
specify it in their own ~/.gbp.conf
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
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