[Dovecot] E-Mail Encryption

[Thomas]

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 of July 2009, Patrick Domack wrote:
>> The only benefit this would being, is email being saved on the server
>> would be encrypted. Otherwise it offers no protection.
>>
>> I guess if you paranoid that the system admin might read your emails,
>> but then, he can just as easily read them as they come in or out of
>> the system.
> 
> Actually such encryption is interesting as a protection in case when someone 
> steals server hardware/disks.

It could be a feature. Why not.
But I'd say that's might be a better idea to encrypt the filesystem. 
But... why not if you have time to code it :)

Cheers,
Thomas