[nzlug] encrypted IMAP storage?

[Mark Foster]

Maybe i'm asking the obvious - but surely the storage medium would need to 
support the encryption mode?

Eg, if Gmail don't support encryption, how do you expect to influence the 
manner in which they store your messages?

If you controlled the server you'd have a lot more flexibility - but as a 
client, the options available to you are only as good as those offered by 
the server which physically hosts your 1's and 0's.

Mark.

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Guy K. Kloss wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was wondering with all those email providers around now (Gmail, etc.)
> whether it is possible to store the content on those in an encrypted way,
> rather than just using transport layer encryption (SSL, TLS).
>
> Background: Gmail offers huge storage space. However, I don't really prefer to
> be all that transparent, especially not to an international organisation
> under US jurisdiction. But this huge IMAP storage space may come in quite
> handy to sort/filter my mail, and store and archive it there.
>
> If I could just tell my mail client (currently using KMail in Kontact) and my
> calendaring, etc. tools to store the resources in an encrypted format there
> by default transparently to me ...
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Guy
>
> -- 
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