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authorDaniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>2019-08-29 11:38:47 -0400
committerDavid Bremner <david@tethera.net>2019-09-01 08:20:25 -0300
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repair: set up codebase for repair functionality
This adds no functionality directly, but is a useful starting point for adding new repair functionality. Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
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@@ -109,6 +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.
+
SEE ALSO
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