[nzlug] encrypted IMAP storage?

[Andrew Simpson]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:03:03 +1300
"Guy K. Kloss" <G.Kloss at massey.ac.nz> wrote:

> 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 ...).
> 

Have you looked at Amazon S3?  It's not free, but it's as cheap as you could imagine - ($US) 10 cents per gigabyte stored per month.

I'm using S3 as a backup with Duplicity.  Duplicity supports PGP encryption out of-the-box.  My only issue was the complete lack of documentation with Duplicity and S3. The other issue is the incredibly slow upload speed of NZ broadband...

Happy to pass on my scripts if anyone is interested.

Andrew