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#1
Espionage 2 / encrypt individual mailboxes?
October 22, 2011, 08:49:59 AM
Hi - I am wondering if it is possible to encrypt individual mailboxes, rather than encrypting my entire Library/Mail folder.  The reason is that I really only have a need to encrypt client-related email, and if I could just do that, backing up my mail would be a lot leaner/faster because it wouldn't involve a giant 6GB sparse bundle.

Would I do this by just creating an application association from Mail.app to those individual mailbox files?  Is that the intended use of application associations?  I just want to double check this question because I am kind of paranoid about getting it wrong and somehow messing up backups...

Thanks!
#2
Hi - I use Carbonite online backup.  As warned of in the Espionage user manual, trying to back up unlocked encrypted files doesn't work (it seems to cause Carbonite to just hang up).

So, I figured I would just do this:

1. Use Espionage's backup feature to drop backups of my encrypted data into a folder called "Espionage Backups"
2. Use Carbonite to back up "Espionage Backups"

Unfortunately, Carbonite doesn't actually back anything up in the "Espionage Backups" folders.  

I am assuming that Carbonite either doesn't "see" the data in that folder, or it considers it a type of data that shouldn't be backed up.  (Carbonite says that it "doesn't back up system files," for instance).

I thought I'd post here to ask:

1. If anyone was able to successfully back up encrypted data to Carbonite somehow.
2. If not, whether someone could recommend a remote backup service that IS compatible with Espionage-encrypted data, whether by the above method or some other.

Thank you!