Comments on: How to Encrypt your Entourage and Apple Mail Mailstores

By: Cory

Cory — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:58:05 +0000

a bit more information – I use Mail.app.

By: Cory

Cory — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:57:28 +0000

This worked great, except that my Bundles don’t work anymore, such as GrowlMail. In addition, I cannot install GPG. Any suggestions for solving this problem?

By: Alexis

Alexis — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:41:57 +0000

Do not forget to do the same trick for the Mail Downloads directory, unless you want to expose the downloaded attachments unencrypted.

By: Victor

Victor — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:20:17 +0000

Thanks for this tutorial. I’m using Mail under Snow Leopard. In addition to the Mail folder I have a “Mail Downloads” folder which I’d also like to encrypt. What is the relationship between the Mail program and these two folders? Can I simply follow the same process in your tutorial and end up with a “Mail” alias and a “Mail Downloads” alias in my Library? Will that protect the downloads? Thanks in advance.

By: Miles Wolbe

Miles Wolbe — Wed, 26 May 2010 17:29:45 +0000

Great tutorial, Jason!

I would suggest changing

“Select 256-bit encryption and read/write for the format”

to:

“Select 256-bit encryption and sparse bundle disk image for the format”

Here’s why:

“Instead of a monolithic file, a sparse bundle is a bundle (directory) that stores the disk image as banded data files. When the content of the image changes, one or more band files is changed, created, or deleted. This allows backup software (such as Time Machine) to operate more efficiently.”

(quote from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_image )

More info on sparse bundles vs. sparse disks: http://db.tidbits.com/article/9673