{"id":176,"date":"2010-09-06T16:55:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T16:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogs.abeazam.com\/dev\/?p=176"},"modified":"2010-09-06T16:55:35","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T16:55:35","slug":"password-protecting-mail-app-and-your-e-mails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blogs.abeazam.com\/dev\/2010\/09\/password-protecting-mail-app-and-your-e-mails\/","title":{"rendered":"Password Protecting Mail.app and your e-mails"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the issues I had with using the Mail.app on OSX is its lack of\u00a0security.<\/p>\n

If some one is logged in as you they then get access to everything else on you machine like say your mail client.<\/p>\n

Now\u00a0I\u00a0really like the Mail client. I have no intention of switching clients. So a solution was required.<\/p>\n

After a little digging i found there was no mods for Mail. No hacks or any other means in which to password protect the client and the mail.\u00a0Eventual\u00a0I\u00a0realised\u00a0I\u00a0was doing it all wrong its not the emails and the client that can be protected but where they are being stored is what can be protected.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0finally\u00a0realised\u00a0if\u00a0I\u00a0created a encrypted dmg and ran everything from there it would\u00a0yield\u00a0the same results.<\/p>\n

Aim:
\nGet both the Mail.app and my email onto a password protected drive.<\/p>\n

Process:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Open Disk Utility to create the encrypted DMG \/Applications\/Utilities\/Disk Utility.app<\/li>\n
  2. Click “New Image” on the top<\/li>\n
  3. Select a Name and a save as location<\/li>\n
  4. Further\u00a0down under size select the size\u00a0I\u00a0made mine 10GB \u00a0this depends on how much mail you expect to store\u00a0locally<\/li>\n
  5. Below that make sure select the Encryption<\/li>\n
  6. Hit create set the password and now you should have a mounted encrypted drive<\/li>\n
  7. Move your Mail app \u00a0from \/Applications\/ to the root of your mounted encrypted drive cut it don’t copy it<\/li>\n
  8. Then make make an alias of the Mail app in the in the \/Applications\/ folder(ctrl\u00a0dragging\u00a0the icon)<\/li>\n
  9. Now you need to cut and past your emails to the encrypted drive find the folder \/Users\/YOUR_USERNAME\/Library\/Mail and past it in the encrypted drive<\/li>\n
  10. Now make an alias of the mail folder from you encrypted drive \u00a0back to the \/Users\/abraham.azam\/Library\/ (ctrl\u00a0dragging\u00a0the folder)<\/li>\n
  11. Finished.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you click the mail icon on the Dock it should now access your mail client and your amils from a scure and ecrypted location. if you unmount the drive and click the icon it will promt you for the password to the dmg then opens the mail app.<\/p>\n

    please let em know what you think of these steps \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    One of the issues I had with using the Mail.app on OSX is its lack of\u00a0security. If some one is logged in as you they then get access to everything else on you machine like say your mail client. Now\u00a0I\u00a0really like the Mail client. I have no intention of switching clients. So a solution was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.abeazam.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.abeazam.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.abeazam.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.abeazam.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.abeazam.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.abeazam.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.abeazam.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.abeazam.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.abeazam.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}