Post by thread:[OT]Email program that stores files securely

Is there an email program that handles multiple mailboxes and can store mail so that it is password protected on my hard drive? _______________________________________ Roy Tauranga New Zealand _______________________________________ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.0/167 - Release Date: 11/11/2005

Define "stores mail so it's password protected" and list what operating system you're using. If you have a password protecting your machine account, store mail locally, and use file system permissions, then your mail's effectively password protected regardless of what mail program you use. If you want the mailstore to actually be passwrod protected because you don't trust other users of the same machine, then you'll only have a marginal level of security even if you use some weak encryption scheme. For "real" security, go buy one of those USB pen drives with a capacity large enough to store as much email as you intend to store (and then some, since we always underestimate storage requirements :)) and set your mail program to put your profile/mail store on that drive. There's no password to worry about, and physical security trumps "passwords" every time. If you;re not using a filesystem with a permission system, then I'd just forget about password-protecting a mailstore, because your system's got bigger security problems. :) Win2K, XP, OS X, and *nix all have permissions which shoudl be adequate unless you're sharing an account. --Danny Hopkins wrote regarding '[OT]Email program that stores files securely' on Sun, Nov 13 at 21:46: > Is there an email program that handles multiple mailboxes and can store > mail so that it is password protected on my hard drive?

Ok how can you get it to do that?????? _______________________________________ Roy Tauranga New Zealand _______________________________________ > -----Original Message----- > MS Outlook does that. > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.0/167 - Release Date: 11/11/2005

Hi Danny I'm using windows 2000 I want to stop other uses on the same computer from scanning some email files stored on my hard drive. Ideally the email program will handle multiple mail boxes and sort mail into different mail stores with some mail boxes secured against unauthorized reading. _______________________________________ Roy Tauranga New Zealand _______________________________________ > {Original Message removed}

> Hi Danny > > I'm using windows 2000 > > I want to stop other uses on the same computer from scanning some email > files stored on my hard drive. > > Ideally the email program will handle multiple mail boxes and sort mail > into different mail stores with some mail boxes secured against > unauthorized reading. > I'm assuming you haven't got Exchange running, but it'd work anyway. Open Outlook, hit File / New / Outlook Data File. This creates a new .PST file, so call it PicList or Sales or whatever. Select another folder if you don't like the default (ie a USB drive like someone else suggested) It lets you set a password, and whether you want the file to be encrypted. In your case yes to both would be good :-) You'll see it show up next to your usual Inbox. Add folders, etc. Then set up the rules to move mail to the new folders. The Organise function has about a billion options, go wild. Now when you open Outlook, it asks you for the password. No password, no lookee at mail. Could get annoying if you have a few of them. A file can be 2Gig in size, at which point it implodes, so multiple .PSTs can be a good idea. The archive function Outlook annoys you with is just another PST. One downside is that to find stuff you need to search in each PST one by one, unless that's been fixed recently. Tony

Just take away read access for everyone but yourself and apply the change recursively to you profile directory. Right-click on C:\Documents and Settings\username, go to "security" and work from there. You can't stop someone with admin rights from reading the mail, but then, you can't stop anyone with physical access to the machine if they're marginally determined - even with passwords and permissions. Basically, if simple permissions arne't enough, then your "enemy" is already determined enough to find a way. Heck, for $30, your passwords alone are useless: http://www.elcomsoft.com/aolpr.html That took me under 30 seconds with Google - there are probably other programs that cost even less, and there are free keyloggers that could simply record what you type in after the mail program starts, which someone with admin access could easily set to run on startup. Get a pen drive. :) --Danny Hopkins wrote regarding 'RE: [OT]Email program that stores files securely' on Sun, Nov 13 at 22:55: {Quote hidden}> Hi Danny > > I'm using windows 2000 > > I want to stop other uses on the same computer from scanning some email > files stored on my hard drive. > > Ideally the email program will handle multiple mail boxes and sort mail > into different mail stores with some mail boxes secured against > unauthorized reading. > > > _______________________________________ > > Roy > Tauranga > New Zealand > _______________________________________ > > > {Original Message removed}