repair: set up codebase for repair functionality

[notmuch] / doc / man7 / notmuch-properties.rst

diff --git a/doc/man7/notmuch-properties.rst b/doc/man7/notmuch-properties.rst
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@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ The following properties are set by notmuch internally in the course
 of its normal activity.
 
 **index.decryption**
-
     If a message contains encrypted content, and notmuch tries to
     decrypt that content during indexing, it will add the property
     ``index.decryption=success`` when the cleartext was successfully
@@ -110,6 +109,18 @@ of its normal activity.
     example, an AES-128 key might be stashed in a notmuch property as:
     ``session-key=7:14B16AF65536C28AF209828DFE34C9E0``.
 
+**index.repaired**
+
+    Some messages arrive in forms that are confusing to view; they can
+    be mangled by mail transport agents, or the sending mail user
+    agent may structure them in a way that is confusing.  If notmuch
+    knows how to both detect and repair such a problematic message, it
+    will do so during indexing.
+
+    If it applies a message repair during indexing, it will use the
+    ``index.repaired`` property to note the type of repair(s) it
+    performed.
+
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