Greetings all, I want to make sure that there is not some capability which I am currently missing to tell Thunderbird not to cache/store emails or spool information on the local disk (this obviously makes most sense with IMAP servers and other servers that store the email server-side).
Ideally, solid disk/filesystem encryption makes this mostly a non-issue, but this is not always possible. I would like to be able to access email without leaving copies of email subjects or bodies cached anywhere on the local disk. Failing that, I would like to be able to securely encrypt them at the application-layer. The emails are being retrieved across an IMAPS encrypted IMAP session, so transport 'should' be secure, and the paging/swapfile is turned completely off on the system to avoid the possibility of sensitive information being cached from memory on disk. First off, is there currently a way to do this that I'm missing? Assuming that there is not, does anyone have an idea roughly what the level of effort involved in creating this capability is? Is this do-able with a plugin, or would it require changes to the base source tree? I am prepared to dive into coding the changes myself if need be, but dislike re-inventing working wheels where they already exist. Thanks, Nathanael _______________________________________________ dev-security mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security
