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2026-02-16doc: initial documentation for git-remote-notmuchDavid Bremner
While it is not intended to be invoked directly, the user still needs to know how to use it via git commands.
2024-07-26config: allow custom separators in author listsLars Kotthoff
Allow distinguishing between commas separating authors and separating first and last names. Amended by db: reformat NEWS entry and commit message. Tweaked whitespace in lib/thread.cc.
2023-04-13doc: fix typosJakub Wilk
2023-04-02lib: index attachments with mime types matching index.as_textDavid Bremner
Instead of skipping indexing all attachments, we check of a (user configured) mime type that is indexable as text.
2022-06-17CLI/git: add safety checks for checkout and commitDavid Bremner
Commits or checkouts that modify a large fraction of the messages in the database should be relatively rare (and in some automated process, probably non-existent). For initial setup, where such operations are expected, the user can pass --force.
2022-06-17CLI/git: support configuration for repo location / prefixDavid Bremner
This is probably more convenient than always passing a command line argument. Use notmuch-config for consistency with other notmuch CLI tools. Now that there is something relevant in the config files, test the --config option.
2022-05-20doc: define and use semantic markup for configuration itemsDavid Bremner
This makes sure each configuration item is cross referenceable without extra markup, and also adds index entries.
2022-02-20doc: use hyperlinks for config options in notmuch-insert(1)David Bremner
The tradeoff is no bold/italic in the man pages to get actual hyperlinks in the html output.
2022-02-20doc: add configuration section to notmuch-new(1)David Bremner
Increase discoverability.
2022-02-20doc: alphabetize options in notmuch-config(1)David Bremner
Originally (I think) these were in the order generated by notmuch setup. As the number of options grows, and several are not in the initial setup generated file, the original order becomes less useful for users. This commit alphabetizes the keys to help users search. There is only one content change, an added cross-reference from user.other_email to user.primary_email.
2022-01-25doc: document new option `show.extra_headers`David Bremner
Increase discoverability by cross referencing from the notmuch-show manual entry to the notmuch-config manual entry.
2021-12-04Merge branch 'release'David Bremner
2021-12-04python-cffi: switch to notmuch_database_{open,create}_with_configDavid Bremner
Since release 0.32, libnotmuch provides searching for database and configuration paths. This commit changes the python module notmuch2 to use those facilities. This fixes the bug reported in [1], along with a couple of the deprecation warnings in the python bindings. Database.default_path is deprecated, since it no longer faithfully reflects what libnotmuch is doing, and it is also no longer used in the bindings themselves. This commit choose the default of config=CONFIG.EMPTY (equivalent to passing "" to notmuch_database_open_with_config). This makes the change upward compatible API-wise (at least as far as the test suite verifies), but changing the default to CONFIG.SEARCH would probably be more convenient for bindings users. [1]: id:87h7d4wp6b.fsf@tethera.net
2021-10-25doc: remove explicit formatting of terms in definition listsDavid Bremner
Sphinx-doc already formats the terms appropriately for a given backend (bold in html and man). `makeinfo` complains noisily about formatting inside a @item if we add our own explicit formatting. This change may change the formatting in the info output. On the other hand, the existing use of quotes for bold is not that great anyway. In some places blank lines were removed to preserve the logical structure of a definition list.
2021-09-04CLI/config support saving s-expression queriesDavid Bremner
This commit does not enable using saved s-expression queries, only saving and retrieving them from the config file or the database. Use in queries will be enabled in a following commit.
2021-08-21doc: document database search algorithm.David Bremner
Essentially a translation of the function _choose_database_path for human consumption. As a bonus, document environment variable NOTMUCH_DATABASE
2021-06-27doc: document database.autocommit variableDavid Bremner
This exposes some database internals that most users will probably not understand.
2021-06-25Merge branch 'release'David Bremner
2021-06-23doc: tweak hook configuration documentation.David Bremner
Add a historical note, and hint to look below for more about hooks. Capitalized the heading for consistency, removed blank line.
2021-05-22doc: example command-line option referenceJani Nikula
Example reference to a command-line option using the option role reference. This creates a hyperlink in html, and the usual boldface style in man page. This could be used throughout the man pages.
2021-05-22doc: use program and option directives to document optionsJani Nikula
Use the program and option directives to document the subcommand options. This unifies a lot of option documentation throughout. This also makes it possible to reference options with :option:`--foo` (within .. program::) or :option:`subcommand --foo` (globally). This is left for later work. See https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/restructuredtext/domains.html#directive-program Note: There is a lot of indentation change, but intentionally there is no reflow. Using 'git diff -w' or 'git show -w' to ignore white space changes makes this a very easy change to review.
2021-05-22doc: use envvar directive and role for environment variablesJani Nikula
Make man1/notmuch.rst the single point of truth for describing notmuch environment variables. Use the envvar directive for that, and reference them with the envvar role. Drive-by cleanup configuration file and hook directory search order documentation.
2021-05-22doc: cross-reference notmuch man pages with actual linksJani Nikula
Add internal hyperlink targets for man pages and cross-reference them using the any role reference. There are a number of alternatives to accomplish this, but this seems like the combination that retains the man page section number and the same boldface style in the man pages. As a bonus, we get sanity checking on the links; for example notmuch-search-terms.rst had a reference to notmuch-properties(1) i.e. the wrong section. The obvious semantic follow-up change would be to only have meaningful "see also" references instead of having them all everywhere.
2021-05-10doc: document database.backup_dirDavid Bremner
Most users will not need to change this, but documenting it helps preserve the interface.
2021-05-10doc: document (tersely) the intended behaviour of relative paths.David Bremner
2021-03-27CLI/config: default to storing all config in external filesDavid Bremner
Previously the fact that some configuration options were only stored in the database (and thus editing the config file had no effect) was a source of user confusion. This was fixed with the series ending at d9af0af1646. On the other hand, the underlying partition of config options into those stored by default in the database and those stored in the config file remained. This is also confusing, since now some invocations of "notmuch config set" modify the config file, and others silently modify the database instead. With this commit, it is up to the user to decide which configuration to modify. A new "--database" option is provided for notmuch config to enable modifying the configuration information in the database; otherwise the default is to update an external config file.
2021-03-20lib: support splitting mail from database location.David Bremner
Introduce a new configuration value for the mail root, and use it to locate mail messages in preference to the database.path (which previously implied the mail messages were also in this location. Initially only a subset of the CLI is tested in a split configuration. Further changes will be needed for the remainder of the CLI to work in split configurations.
2021-02-06doc: describe new config frameworkDavid Bremner
Remove STORED IN DATABASE discussion, describe search rules. Currently profiles seem a bit pointless. They will make more sense when they apply to databases as well.
2020-06-06doc: field processor support now always included, adjust manual pagesTomi Ollila
The features that require field processor support, are now just documented w/o mentioning **Xapian Field Processors**' is needed for those. Replaced "compact" and "field_processor" with "retry_lock" in build_with config option, as it is currently the only one that is optionally excluded. The former 2 are now documented as features always included. Dropped one 'we' "passive" in notmuch-search-terms.rst. It was the only one, and inconsistent with rest of the documentation in that file. Dropped message about conditional open-ended ranges support, as those are now always supported.
2020-02-19Drop deprecated/unused crypto.gpg_pathDaniel Kahn Gillmor
crypto.gpg_path was only used when we built against gmime versions before 3.0. Since we now depend on gmime 3.0.3 or later, it is meaningless. The removal of the field from the _notmuch_config struct would be an ABI change if that struct were externally exposed, but it is not, so it's safe to unilaterally remove it. Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
2020-01-16doc: clean up manpage description of "notmuch-config list" outputDaniel Kahn Gillmor
The escaping in the description of the output of "notmuch-config list" appears to have been inherited from some previous attempts at documentation. It leaked out in the actual generated manpage documentation, where it looks like this: list Every configuration item is printed to stdout, each on a separate line of the form: *section*.\ *item*\ =\ *value* This simplification cleans up the overescaping. Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
2019-05-25doc: document user header indexing.David Bremner
It's a bit odd that the primary documentation is in notmuch-config, but it is consistent with the "query:" prefix.
2018-01-04fix typosDaniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-12-31doc: unify definition list usage across man pagesJani Nikula
Make all parameter descriptions etc. use reStructuredText definition lists with uniform style and indentation. Remove redundant indentation from around the lists. Remove blank lines between term lines and definition blocks. Use four spaces for indentation. This is almost completely whitespace and paragraph reflow changes.
2017-12-15cli/new: support /<regex>/ in new.ignoreJani Nikula
Add support for using /<regex>/ style regular expressions in new.ignore, mixed with the old style verbatim file and directory basenames. The regex is matched against the relative path from the database path.
2017-12-08docs: clean up documentation about decryption policiesDaniel Kahn Gillmor
Now that the range of sensible decryption policies has come into full view, we take a bit of space to document the distinctions. Most people will use either "auto" or "true" -- but we provide "false" and "nostash" to handle use cases that might reasonably be requested. Note also that these can be combined in sensible ways. Like, if your mail comes in regularly to a service that doesn't have access to your secret keys, but does have access to your index, and you feel comfortable adding selected encrypted messages to the index after you've read them, you could stay in "auto" normally, and then when you find yourself reading an indexable message (e.g. one you want to be able to search for in the future, and that you don't mind exposing to whatever entities have access to your inde), you can do: notmuch reindex --decrypt=true id:whatever@example.biz That leaves your default the same (still "auto") but you get the cleartext index and stashed session key benefits for that particular message.
2017-12-08crypto: add --decrypt=nostash to avoid stashing session keysDaniel Kahn Gillmor
Here's the configuration choice for people who want a cleartext index, but don't want stashed session keys. Interestingly, this "nostash" decryption policy is actually the same policy that should be used by "notmuch show" and "notmuch reply", since they never modify the index or database when they are invoked with --decrypt. We take advantage of this parallel to tune the behavior of those programs so that we're not requesting session keys from GnuPG during "show" and "reply" that we would then otherwise just throw away.
2017-12-08crypto: actually stash session keys when decrypt=trueDaniel Kahn Gillmor
If you're going to store the cleartext index of an encrypted message, in most situations you might just as well store the session key. Doing this storage has efficiency and recoverability advantages. Combined with a schedule of regular OpenPGP subkey rotation and destruction, this can also offer security benefits, like "deletable e-mail", which is the store-and-forward analog to "forward secrecy". But wait, i hear you saying, i have a special need to store cleartext indexes but it's really bad for me to store session keys! Maybe (let's imagine) i get lots of e-mails with incriminating photos attached, and i want to be able to search for them by the text in the e-mail, but i don't want someone with access to the index to be actually able to see the photos themselves. Fret not, the next patch in this series will support your wacky uncommon use case.
2017-12-08cli/new, insert, reindex: change index.decrypt to "auto" by defaultDaniel Kahn Gillmor
The new "auto" decryption policy is not only good for "notmuch show" and "notmuch reindex". It's also useful for indexing messages -- there's no good reason to not try to go ahead and index the cleartext of a message that we have a stashed session key for. This change updates the defaults and tunes the test suite to make sure that they have taken effect.
2017-12-08crypto: new decryption policy "auto"Daniel Kahn Gillmor
This new automatic decryption policy should make it possible to decrypt messages that we have stashed session keys for, without incurring a call to the user's asymmetric keys.
2017-12-08indexing: Change from try_decrypt to decryptDaniel Kahn Gillmor
the command-line interface for indexing (reindex, new, insert) used --try-decrypt; and the configuration records used index.try_decrypt. But by comparison with "show" and "reply", there doesn't seem to be any reason for the "try" prefix. This changeset adjusts the command-line interface and the configuration interface. For the moment, i've left indexopts_{set,get}_try_decrypt alone. The subsequent changeset will address those.
2017-10-21config: define new option index.try_decryptDaniel Kahn Gillmor
By default, notmuch won't try to decrypt on indexing. With this patch, we make it possible to indicate a per-database preference using the config variable "index.try_decrypt", which by default will be false. At indexing time, the database needs some way to know its internal defaults for how to index encrypted parts. It shouldn't be contingent on an external config file (since that can't be retrieved from the database object itself), so we store it in the database. This behaves similarly to the query.* configurations, which are also stored in the database itself, so we're not introducing any new dependencies by requiring that it be stored in the database.
2017-10-21config: test whether an item is stored in the database by nameDaniel Kahn Gillmor
QUERY_STRING was only used in two places, both to test whether a variable should be stored in (or retrieved from) the database. Since other configuration variables might be stored in the database in the future, consolidate that test into a single function. We also document that these configuration options should not be placed in the config file.
2017-10-18doc: make SEE ALSO references one-per-lineDaniel Kahn Gillmor
This will make future diffs cleaner, make it easier to keep them alphabetical, and make it easier to scan and search the documentation sources.
2017-07-14config: deprecate/drop crypto.gpg_path under gmime 2.6/3.0Daniel Kahn Gillmor
gmime 3.0 no longer offers a means to set the path for gpg. Users can set $PATH anyway if they want to pick a differently-installed gpg (e.g. /usr/local/bin/gpg), so this isn't much of a reduction in functionality. The one main difference is for people who have tried to use "gpg2" to make use of gpg 2.1, but that isn't usefully co-installable anyway.
2016-11-28doc: whitespace cleanupTomi Ollila
In most part, our .rst documents are indented with 8 spaces instead of tabs. Bring the rest of the lines to the same format. Also, on one (supposedly empty) line, trailing spaces were removed.
2016-05-25CLI: add notmuch-config support for named queriesDavid Bremner
Most of the infrastructure here is general, only the validation/dispatch is hardcoded to a particular prefix. A notable change in behaviour is that notmuch-config now opens the database e.g. on every call to list, which fails with an error message if the database doesn't exit yet.
2016-05-13lib/cli: add library API / CLI for compile time optionsDavid Bremner
This is intentionally low tech; if we have more than two options it may make sense to build up what infrastructure is provided.
2015-03-11CLI: make gpg binary used by libgmime configurable.David Bremner
Previously we set up a way for the top level notmuch command to choose which gpg binary was invoked by libgmime. In this commit we add the (mostly boilerplate) code to allow the notmuch-config command to read and write this path, and use it in the appropriate struct. Update tests for new default variable
2015-01-01Add default configuration values to the man pageSergei Shilovsky