Hi !
I’m using Mail on Mac OS 10.5.2. I would like to put my mail local folder in a vault to secure it. I’ve been searching but didn’t find any answer. Does anyone have an Idea on how to achieve this without breaking the application. I think the answer is about putting the mail folder in a vault which is automatically mounted on startup (i don’t know how to do this), what do you think ?

Thanks for the help !
Have a nice day everyone.
Sylvain

It would appear this works fine with symbolic links to a couple of folders Mail.app uses.

First, I copied my ~/Library/Mail and ~/Library/Mail Downloads to a vault.
Then, in Terminal.app I ran these two commands:

ln -s /Volumes/myvaultname/Mail ~/Library/Mail
ln -s /Volumes/myvaultname/Mail\ Downloads ~/Library/Mail\ Downloads

I’m not sure if the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.* files can be placed and symlinked similarly without breaking some other functionality. These house only the account names, POP3/IMAP server addresses and such.