Encrypting the maildir

[philmck]

I came across this thread but it's really old so I'm making a new one.

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Thread 'Encrypting the maildir'

Feb 12, 2010

Hi, I'm using the Dovecot mail-server and I have about 20 different mail-accounts on my server and they all have their separate maildirs.

What I want to do now is to encrypt those directories in a way that their content can only be decrypted by the users account-password. Encryption would have to work with a public key each time a new email is received. A simple public/private key approach wouldn't work here because I don't want to force my users to choose a 256Bit prime number as their email password...

Does anyone know about an existing solution for this problem?

• [mm]
• Replies: 14
• Forum: Dovecot

There is now a mail_crypt_plugin available for Dovecot. It looks really good. It even works with FTS (full text search)!

mail-crypt-plugin — Dovecot documentation

Is there any chance of getting it implemented?

 

[God]

NIS2 applies to email communication aswell. Hopefully to see this added on DirectAdmin by default.