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

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

Sorry, forgot $HOME/.gconf/apps/evolution as well.

poc

On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 18:33 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> If you're really paranoid you might also want to consider encrypting
> $HOME/.gnome2_private/Evolution and $HOME/.camel_certs, which contain
> stuff like your mail account passwords and certificates.
> 
> poc
> 
> On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 09:40 -0800, Ari El wrote:
> > 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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