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Hi Mike

Thanks for your reply.  I appreciate that there's some problem occurring as a result of a new start-up approach being used by Lion and these things can obviously be tricky and unwelcome news for developers.  Other than this new hiccup, a rather bad one, Espionage really is a great program and I'm a very happy user.

Hopefully some solution will be forthcoming.

In the meanwhile, unfortunately, I can't lock Mail from accessing my Mobileme account by requiring a password, as I'd then have to enter a password every few minutes that Mail checked my account or every time I wanted to send an email.  That would drive anyone nuts.

I looked through the many system settings and couldn't locate one to prevent re-loading apps on start-up after a crash, as you suggested.  Perhaps you could tell me where that is located.  It doesn't seem to be a Mobileme setting, and I checked various general and security settings, but with no luck.

I did notice that in the user accounts you can set programs to login (presumably startup) automatically, and I was wondering if this might give Espionage priority ahead of Mail to stop it grabbing mail.  It wouldn't be too secure, but better than how it is.

I'm running Lion v10.7.1.

Kind regards
Rik

If for some reason Mail is not closed when Lion closes down, such as during a crash, then when Lion restarts it automatically restarts Mail.  Mail then decides I have no mail and sets about recovering it all from my Mobileme account.  

If I close Mail during this process then restart it, Espionage intervenes and asks for a password before Mail loads the encrypted Mail and Mail Downloads folders.

The problems are: 1. I can't seem to stop Mail downloading my mail if it starts automatically.  2. There seems to be now a second Mail folder somewhere with a large amount of unencrypted mail downloaded into it.  3. How secure is the entire encryption process if it's only necessary to open Mail in this manner to gain access to all my Mail?

I'd like to stop the automatic downloads, clear the stored second Mail folders, and prevent anyone from being able to ever get my mail by such a simple method as otherwise the encryption provides very little protection.

Any helpful advice would be appreciated.

Thanks for your time and expertise.

Thanks Greg.  I'll do that next time it appears.  I think it's once each day.

Since installing Espionage, I'm getting a message that aosnotifyd requires a password to access the key chain.  Apparently it's Mobileme doing a sync.

Does anyone know how I might stop this problem, which seems to be Espionage locking the program from access to the keychain.

Your kind help would be greatly appreciated.