On Thursday, April 05, 2001, Karin Spaink wrote the
following about "encrypted mail saving !?"
KS> On 03-04-2001 at 08:05, Armin Schweitzer kindly wrote:
>> But I just saw that the files that stores
>> the mail are not encrypted. Is there a way to
>> keep them encrypted?
KS> No. The only way to keep them encrypted is to use an
KS> encrption program, such as PGP-disk.
>> It's because we're having our user home directories
>> on a central server.
>> I use passwords for my email-accounts. But as far
>> as the files contain the messages in plain-text
>> it's not worth much.
>> I'm using TB under NT4 SP6a and Win2k SP1 and the
>> Mail-directory is stored on a Sparc-Workstation
>> using Samba.
KS> Under WinNT you can set up private directories for users
KS> that other users cannot access. Perhaps that's the way to go
KS> about it...
You can also set up permissions in UNIX and Samba also to restrict
access to all but yourself (and the super-user of course). Talk to the
systems administrator (or set the permissions yourself if you are the
sysadmin).
Other than that, you would need, as Karin mentioned, PGP-disk or an
equivalent.
-M
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