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Locally Secure Email Clients?
Mattcelt asks: "I share my PC with my roommates, two of whom don't have their own PCs. In order to keep things simple, I have Windows98 running on it - they are used to the interface; it runs the programs they need to run from the University; and I refuse to pay the money to Microsoft to upgrade to a newer Windows OS. Unfortunately, there are some issues with privacy, and though I trust my roommates, there are work-related things I wouldn't want them to stumble into. Has anyone seen an email client other than Outlook that has -local- file security? Outlook has a feature to allow the password protecting of .pst files on the local drive, but it seems that every other email client figures that once the mail is on your machine, you don't need it protected any longer. Is there another email client with integrated password protection?"
Please mod parent (-5, Totally irrelevant plus testosterone filled) :-)
I am just saying you were presented with an IT problem, and you chose to treat it as social problem. It is not a bad approach, however it does not solve anything, and your answer qualifies as the anti-thesis of +1, Informative.
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The submitter is trying out this new thing called "being nice". It's not for everybody, but some of us enjoy helping our friends.
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Why do you assume testosterone must be involved in such an "arrangement" - either hetero or not?? I know plenty of female geeks would negotiate such. :-) :-)
I guess it was not clear. I meant the "post" was a little testosterone filled, not the arrangement... :-)
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As long as we aren't making presumptions about the arrangement, I'm OK with that. :-)