Re: backup and synchronize to fastmail

["Christian G. Warden" <cwarden@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 04:57:21PM -0700, Christopher Warrington wrote:
> Alejandro Jakubi <jakubi@xxxxxxxxx> @ Sunday, May 18, 2008 2:55 PM
> On Sun, 18 May 2008, Christopher Warrington wrote:
> >> Is there something wrong with the permissions at your site too? Why
> >> can't you simply store the password in the config file and theb set
> >> the permissions such that only you* can read the file?
> 
> > It is a problem of security under the threat of attacks. I mean both
> > internal or external. This is a huge university. Just to put some
> > figures, this cluster alone for this department of physics has about
> > 350 accounts. And this university has over 3*10^5 students. I know
> > that the local network of this department and neighbouring ones were
> > masivelly attacked in the past several times.  The security measures
> > has been increasing constantly. Last year, when the system manager
> > proposed me to use imapfilter to handle automatically the flood of
> > spam, he advised me to configure it so that I do not store my
> > password in the text configuration file...
> 
> > And here I have to handle not only this password but the password of
> > my account on fastmail.
> 
> >> ** You could probably use some encryption to get around this.
> 
> > Do you have some concrete scheme in mind?
> 
> I know that NTFS supports file- and directory-level  encryption. On
> Windows , the user's certificate store is involved, so simply by
> logging in sucessfully the files can be opened. As I am not a Unix
> expert (nor really a Windows expert), I entreat this list for
> sugestions.

One could do something simple like:
#!/bin/sh
gpg ~/.offlineimaprc.gpg
offlineimap &
sleep 2
wipe -f ~/.offlineimaprc


Christian