On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:48:39 +0900 Daiki Ueno <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> In <[email protected]> >>>>>> Ted Zlatanov <[email protected]> wrote: >> If you trust your 3 servers, that's great. The vast majority of IMAP >> users, as I said, have no expectation of privacy on their IMAP server >> (consider GMail, for instance). This is not a filesystem on a remote >> server where you can trust user permissions to be managed correctly. DU> I agree with the facts. But in that case, you cannot even trust your DU> ISP which delivers original e-mails, can you? Users expect a higher level of security with their files than with e-mail. I think tramp-imap.el should provide it by default. Doing less is easier and lets us blame the user later ("Why didn't you read the manual? It clearly says to turn encryption on or specify the .gpg extension!") but I don't like that approach. DU> Do you think that Gnus should encrypt all the outgoing e-mails by DU> default? No, that's completely different from what we're discussing. We're discussing file storage over IMAP, not e-mail security. Ted _______________________________________________ Tramp-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tramp-devel
