Lloyd Zusman said: > I'm wondering how much work it would take to add the ability to > optionally encrypt the Courier mail spool. > .... > Mail in transit or which is being piped to other processes would remain > in plain text; only when Courier is writing a message to disk would it > be optionally encrypted.
I'm not sure of the logic behind this approach, however if it only encrypts when mail is written to disk that you want it encrypted, investigate putting your mail spoolone of the encrypted filesystems that Linux supports. A google for linux and "encrypted filesystem" turned up plenty. > I would imagine that the maildrop utility would also have this optional > capability. I can't imagine much usefulness for such a feature, securing physical access to the server is the better approach in my opinion. > Perhaps this could be handled via a filter that gets invoked right > before a message is written to disk, and a corresponding filter that > gets invoked during the reading of messages via pop and imap. Courier has no pre-imap/pop3 access filtering capabilities (nor can I think of a valid need for one) > Anyway, I'm just wondering about the feasibility of something like this. > Would it be easy to add this to Courier, or would it require lots of > refactoring of the code? It certainly would require reworking of the code and is better of left to the filesystem itself. Jay -- Jay Lee Network / Systems Administrator Information Technology Dept. Philadelphia Biblical University -- ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
