[VM] Re: Using authinfo along with vm-spool-files?

[Rene]

That is right.  I use .authinfo.gpg password-store for IMAP regularly
and that is how it works.  The work is done by EasyPG and the
auth-sources package of Emacs.  VM just picks up the password
information from them.

Great.

This doesn't mean that the passwords are secure because VM stores them
internally once it retrieves them.  VM always stored passwords
internally and there is nothing new in that.
Gnus apparently doesn't store passwords internally, or times them out
after a while, and there was some discussion of it on the Gnus mailing
lists.  We might need to do something like that eventually too.  But so
far, there haven't been any demands for higher security in VM.

If there's a way to easily encrypt whole folders, I'd be interested to
know how to do that.

--
Rene

[Uday Reddy]

Post by Rene
If there's a way to easily encrypt whole folders, I'd be interested to
know how to do that.

Doesn't EasyPG handle that quite normally?

Cheers,
Uday

[Uday Reddy]

My first reaction was to rename my folder with a .gpg extension but
this does not seem to be working.

That can't possibly work. A .gpg file is supposed to be encrypted!
Renaming your folder to a .gpg extension doesn't encrypt it.

A better bet might be to visit a new file called folder.gpg in Emacs and
insert-file the folder into it. Then save it and kill the buffer. If
you then do vm-visit-folder to folder.gpg, my guess is that Emacs should
decrypt it and then fire up VM on it.

Cheers,
Uday