On Feb 19, 2:11 am, Uday Reddy <[email protected]> wrote: > That is right. I use .authinfo.gpg password-store for IMAP regularly > and that is how it works. The work is done by EasyPG and the > auth-sources package of Emacs. VM just picks up the password > information from them.
Great. > This doesn't mean that the passwords are secure because VM stores them > internally once it retrieves them. VM always stored passwords > internally and there is nothing new in that. > > Gnus apparently doesn't store passwords internally, or times them out > after a while, and there was some discussion of it on the Gnus mailing > lists. We might need to do something like that eventually too. But so > far, there haven't been any demands for higher security in VM. If there's a way to easily encrypt whole folders, I'd be interested to know how to do that. -- Rene
