My concerns are privacy on a family laptop. And
having my
e-mail on the external hard drive (E: drive) would
be nice so
no one messes them up. All I need is to be able to
store my
OE Local Folders on it. I also keep all my
personal files on
this external e:\ hard drive so when we have
guests or nosy
kids (adult & children) visiting I can just unplug
it and put it away
and they can use the laptop to their hearts
content.

I was able to make a new shortcut of My Documents
and then
change the destination to the e:\ drive when I
want to save or
access files. So I thought somehow I could do the
same with
OE.


"Frank Slootweg" wrote in
message
...
Ron Sommer wrote:

"Frank Slootweg" wrote
in message
...
: Ron Sommer wrote:
:
snipped
:
: It is not possible to install OE to a
partition that does not contain
: the operating system.
: OE puts entries in the Registry.
:
: Yes, Bubey already more or less assumed that
("or at least the "Local
: Folders" and Address Book") and PA Bear also
mentioned it.
:
: The OE store folder and wab file can be
moved to an external drive,
: but there will be problems if the drive is
not connected when OE is
: started.
:
: But these wouldn't be *fatal* problems, would
they? I.e. start OE
: without external drive - Oops, no folders! -
exit OE, connect external
: drive, start OE - folder back and everybody
is happy. Right?

Wrong.
OE will probably make a default store folder on
the system drive.
The Registry will have to be corrected.

I see. That would indeed be a rather major
problem. So I think we
should conclude that a local external drive is OK
*as long as it is not
removed* (i.e. unplugged/plugged-in). With an USB
disk that's likely to
happen sooner or later, so probably too risky.

: Bubey's security should use NTFS file
system, passwords, and folder
: permissions.
:
: How would that help? Once the bad guy has
physical access to the
: external drive, he can hook it up to his own
system and override any
: NTFS permissions, can't he? Or do you mean
*encryption*. If so, can you
: give details on how to use encrypted folders
in/with OE (if that's at
: all possible).
:
: The same goes for physical access to the
internal drive, if that is
: what you mean. Physical access to the internal
drive may be harder than
: to the external one, but once yoy have it,
there's no difference.

Unless you encrypt the emails that you send,
emails are not that secure.

I don't think Bubey is talking/concerned about
email in transit, but
mainly (only?) about stored (in folders) email.

Keeping your store folder from a casual user is
a lot easier than keeping it
from a determined hacker.

Very true. It would be nice to know the scope of
Bubey's concerns, so
we could perhaps give more specific advice.

I don't know how secure the store folder can be
made.

Anybody else can comment on the
protection/encryption of the store
folder (and its content)?