Re: [Dovecot] E-Mail Encryption

2009-07-25 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
access to the running > system won't reveal their contents (although it would help). I'm in favour of both whole-disk and application-based encryption. They complement each other, neither makes the other useless. -- Tapani Tarvainen

Re: [Dovecot] E-Mail Encryption

2009-07-19 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
I've frequently told everyone to assume that their email is > insecure, and if they've got a problem with it they need to use PGP or some > other end-to-end encryption on their mail clients. Not my problem! I think the far majority of cases are like that, and I'd guess most do

Re: [Dovecot] E-Mail Encryption

2009-07-16 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
n you *can't* read them. (New mails can of course still be intercepted as noted, but that doesn't mean protecting old stuff isn't useful.) Anyway, this can be done with procmail as well, but a dovecot plugin might be more convenient. -- Tapani Tarvainen

Re: [Dovecot] multiple authentication mechanisms/passwords for same account

2009-07-15 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
ks the next one." How did I miss that. Thank you! > http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/MultipleDatabases Right. One caveat remains: "Currently the fallback works only with the PLAIN authentication mechanism." Guess I can live with that. Thanks again, and apologies for careless reading of the docs, -- Tapani Tarvainen

[Dovecot] multiple authentication mechanisms/passwords for same account

2009-07-15 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
first map an account to a fixed authentication mechanism/password and if it fails, others won't be tried? -- Tapani Tarvainen