It appears to be an oversight that encrypted parts were indexed previously. The terms generated from encrypted parts are meaningless and do nothing but add bloat to the database. It is not worth indexing the encrypted content, just as it's not worth indexing the signatures in signed parts. --- lib/index.cc | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/index.cc b/lib/index.cc index e8e9922..0cff9cd 100644 --- a/lib/index.cc +++ b/lib/index.cc @@ -339,6 +339,10 @@ _index_mime_part (notmuch_message_t *message, if (i > 1) fprintf (stderr, "Warning: Unexpected extra parts of multipart/signed. Indexing anyway.\n"); } + if (GMIME_IS_MULTIPART_ENCRYPTED (multipart)) { + /* Don't index encrypted parts. */ + continue + } _index_mime_part (message, g_mime_multipart_get_part (multipart, i)); } -- 1.7.7.3