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

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

AFAIK, Evo caches the *headers*, unless you explicitely open the message
of course, but note that applying junk filters may also imply
downloading message bodies, since both SpamAssasin and Bogofilter do
Bayesian analisis of the message text. Since Gmail has its own junk
filtering, you might want to disable Evo junk filtering for your Gmail
account. In fact Gmail recommends this.

Evo has no built-in way to encrypt the cache, though I guess a plugin
could be written to do it. As others have said, you can always use other
Linux tools for filesystem encryption.

poc

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