From 8cf0f5313fc7a9fdc6f9bda012405b99d8ce91f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: revsuine Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 02:55:27 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] content/blog/mail_server_alpine_postfix_dovecot_tutorial.md: mail_crypt typo + extra sentence --- .../blog/mail_server_alpine_postfix_dovecot_tutorial/index.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/blog/mail_server_alpine_postfix_dovecot_tutorial/index.md b/content/blog/mail_server_alpine_postfix_dovecot_tutorial/index.md index 8aa1b5a..b22ad3d 100644 --- a/content/blog/mail_server_alpine_postfix_dovecot_tutorial/index.md +++ b/content/blog/mail_server_alpine_postfix_dovecot_tutorial/index.md @@ -748,7 +748,7 @@ Dovecot has a [mail\_crypt plugin](https://doc.dovecot.org/main/core/plugins/mai client with your server with no changes, and no difference in user experience. Mail is decrypted on the server and sent over IMAP. -We will optionally set up global key mail\_crypt encryption. This does not provider protection against an attacker with +We will optionally set up global key mail\_crypt encryption. This does not provide protection against an attacker with root access, or full disk access (which is basically root access), however it can protect against other processes reading our mail since they can't read the private key. @@ -798,6 +798,8 @@ Restart Dovecot for the changes to take effect: # rc-service dovecot restart +Note that this will not make any difference to reading unencrypted email that was previously stored in your mailbox. + # Use a local email client You are now ready to try logging in on a local email client such as Thunderbird, Evolution, Geary, KMail, etc.