[nzlug] encrypted IMAP storage?

[Guy K. Kloss]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:09:11 pm Mark Foster wrote:
> 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?

Well, in a way you're right. But my question's origin was to store my stuff 
using the public IMAP server as a container. Content could be e. g. dumped 
all into a MIME attachment. It's the free parsing of content that I would 
like to inhibit by the provider.

My own server of course could solve all kinds of problems, but it would also 
be more costly and less reliable (has anybody ever seen world wide a more 
reliable infrastructure than the one offered by Google? It's seldom and 
hard ...).

Guy


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