Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k) said the following On 05/05/2008 03:55 PM:
> Is there a Thunderbird add-on that encrypt and compress
> all mail folders real-time? Better prompt me to enter password
> in order to access local mail folders.
>

I believe Tb is actually trying to check mails in your mail accounts and
as ( most probably ) you are using a Master password , It is prompting
to type master password . As far as i know Tb can ask for password only
for IMAP folders.
"http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/tips#beh_imappassword"

But there some other ways to protect profile folder content , you may
see this article
"http://kb.mozillazine.org/Protecting_the_contents_of_the_profile_-_mail"

Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k) wrote:
> Is there a Thunderbird add-on that encrypt and compress
> all mail folders real-time? Better prompt me to enter password
> in order to access local mail folders.

As the mozillazine article from the other post suggests, there are no
safe methods to store emails using only an add-on. The whole storage
engine would have to be modified to support a safe way to do this.

As Your footer suggests, You use Ubuntu, so it would be easy to download
the cryptsetup package with LUKS extensions included. I use it myself
(not for encrypting Td's profile).

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on 5/5/08 11:07 AM Marcin Szewczyk, Wodny said the following:
> Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k) wrote:
>> Is there a Thunderbird add-on that encrypt and compress
>> all mail folders real-time? Better prompt me to enter password
>> in order to access local mail folders.
>
> As the mozillazine article from the other post suggests, there are no
> safe methods to store emails using only an add-on. The whole storage
> engine would have to be modified to support a safe way to do this.
>
> As Your footer suggests, You use Ubuntu, so it would be easy to download
> the cryptsetup package with LUKS extensions included. I use it myself
> (not for encrypting Td's profile).
>

http://www.truecrypt.org/

Simply make sure to activate de-crpytion before using TB.

on 5/5/08 5:25 AM Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k) said the following:
> Is there a Thunderbird add-on that encrypt and compress
> all mail folders real-time? Better prompt me to enter password
> in order to access local mail folders.
>

Also look at OpenPGP for transmission security.

Dan wrote:
> on 5/5/08 11:07 AM Marcin Szewczyk, Wodny said the following:
>> Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k) wrote:
>>> Is there a Thunderbird add-on that encrypt and compress
>>> all mail folders real-time? Better prompt me to enter password
>>> in order to access local mail folders.
>> As the mozillazine article from the other post suggests, there are no
>> safe methods to store emails using only an add-on. The whole storage
>> engine would have to be modified to support a safe way to do this.
>>
>> As Your footer suggests, You use Ubuntu, so it would be easy to download
>> the cryptsetup package with LUKS extensions included. I use it myself
>> (not for encrypting Td's profile).
>>
>
> http://www.truecrypt.org/
>
> Simply make sure to activate de-crpytion before using TB.

Why truecrypt would be better than LUKS?

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