simple question

[me_new]

so if i am not mistaken, when i enable my yahoo account using zimbra desktop, some data (email) is downloaded locally so that i can work on it while disconnected from the internets. that's very nice. my question is, is this data encrypted so that if i lose my laptop someone can't simply open the files and read let's say email addresses? my personal email has a lot of messages from my banks etc etc and if these emails are to be stored locally i want to know they are safe.

thank you very much!! zimbra has made me fall in love with email once again!!

[mmorse]

Welcome to the forums,

Vote for this RFE: Bug 14713 -encrypt offline messages

Based on feedback I've seen, even though you can still find/search the store folder on disk, some want Bug 27005 - Prompt for password in offline client (for zimbra/non zimbra accounts) done earlier anyways - even without encryption behind it yet - as someone dropping by and navigating the store isn't as 'easy' as opening Zimbra Desktop.

Current best practice is to set a platform/operating system level password (at login/screensaver), OS encryption or storage/disk encryption. (Should your platform not have anything built-in you might use the open source TrueCrypt to encrypt the entire partition for example.)

[me_new]

@mmorse: thanks for the information. it answered my question. i'm on windows so trying to put a password on a folder/file is useless.

i read the bugs and i hope they come to be features of zimbra at some point. i came across zimbra because it "brings offline access to webmail" and i think it's obvious that webmail="safely stored somewhere other than my laptop or a flat file", hence zimbra should have strong security features. i think.

thanks!!