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authorDaniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>2017-12-08 01:23:54 -0500
committerDavid Bremner <david@tethera.net>2017-12-08 08:08:46 -0400
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cli/reply: use decryption policy "auto" by default.
If the user doesn't specify --decrypt= at all, but a stashed session key is known to notmuch, when replying to an encrypted message, notmuch should just go ahead and decrypt. The user can disable this at the command line with --decrypt=false, though it's not clear why they would ever want to do that.
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@@ -80,8 +80,12 @@ Supported options for **reply** include
multipart/encrypted part will be replaced by the decrypted
content.
+ If a session key is already known for the message, then it
+ will be decrypted automatically unless the user explicitly
+ sets ``--decrypt=false``.
+
Decryption expects a functioning **gpg-agent(1)** to provide any
- needed credentials. Without one, the decryption will fail.
+ needed credentials. Without one, the decryption will likely fail.
See **notmuch-search-terms(7)** for details of the supported syntax for
<search-terms>.