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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Evolution-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
