In Michael wrote:

> I have installed an encrypted filesystem using the dm-crypt module. Thet
> filesystem was a FAT32 file system and I use dm-crypt to encrypt it
> through /dev/mapper [this is how its done I am told]
>
> I wanted to move my storage files for thunderbird acroos to the encrypted
> filesystem for safe keeping. They can be copied accoss OK (as user) - so
> I
> have the permissions ot read and write to the disk. When I start
> thunderbird I can selsct the new filesytem and read email. But it hangs
> when I try to get email from the pop-server. I have to kill -9 the
> program.
>
> Is there any known issues using thunderbird with FAT32 or dm-crypt? Does
> anyone have any suggestions?

I reformatted the FAT32 file systems to ext2 and re-encrypted them. Now it
all seems to work.

I don't know why it doesn't work with FAT32 as my largest email file
(folder) was less than 300 megs.