Re: [Evolution] Offline message cache encryption with a Master Password?

[Ari El <ari reads gmail com>]

Thanks All for the replies.

I'm already using LUKS (dmcrypt) volumes that are unlocked by PAM when I
login, which comes handy; I'll just move ~/.evolution contents to a LUKS
volume, and replace the folder with a symlink.

Thanks!




Caleb Marcus wrote:
> 
> It doesn't do it with POP messages either... most clients don't. If you
> don't have a secure account password to your computer, or you're worried
> about someone using a LiveCD to directly access the drive, you should
> just stick with the gmail website. You could also use full-disk
> encryption, which is available on several Linux distros, but this will
> require reinstalling the system.
> On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 22:20 -0800, Ari El wrote:
> 
>> Recently I discovered gmail's new IMAP feature. The next minute I was
>> setting
>> evolution up to access my gmail account. I noticed evo's google/imap
>> account
>> cached thousand of messages (some headers, some full messages), and also
>> found that the cache is made persistent even with me *not* selecting
>> "mark
>> for offline reading". Meaning that if I close evo, then reopen, at first
>> I
>> get asked for the imap server password, but even if I dont enter it, I
>> can
>> see the full local cache of the imap folders and all recent message
>> contents.
>> 
>> I don't like this. 
>> 
>> Is there a way to force evo to encrypt the local cache (imap account and
>> also the exchage account if possible), so that I get asked for a password
>> to
>> open the local cache (or better, the default gnome keyring could be
>> used)?
>> any hint on how to do this?
>> 
>> TIA
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