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

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

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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