Hi,

The only thing you could do is utilize the 'encrypt phone' option in 
android. This would encrypt the file that your passwords are stored in. 
However, it isn't really a solution as encrypting your whole phone brings 
major performance disadvantages and also, if the phone is currently on and 
after you have already entered your password, anyone with your phone in 
their hands will have access to this file. k-9 mail simply needs to protect 
user passwords rather than storing them in plain text as it does now.

On Monday, April 6, 2015 at 4:17:24 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:
>
> When I setup the access to the remote mail servers for POP3/SMTP then I 
> have to enter my remote mailbox passwords.
>
> I fear a situation where my smartphone is stolen and someone else can read 
> out my remote mailbox passwords.
>
> Can I somehow protect these passwords (which I guess are somwehere hidden 
> (in which?) in a local Android file?
>
> K-9 Mail should prompt me for password at startup
>
>
>

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