Locally Secure Email Clients?

Posted by Cliff on Monday May 10, 2004 @11:23AM from the protecting-your-email-from-prying-eyes dept.

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?"

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Emulation? by watanuki · 2004-05-10 12:29 · Score: 0, Redundant

Would something like Linux + WINE (I know, WINE is not an emulator) be practical for you, if you are just running a email client?
You can go all the way to using Linux + Win98 running on VMWare.
Not sure if qemu is stable enough, but if it is good enough to boot WinXP...