[ja]

There are various sources of information related to encrypting contact, email information etc such as

Mail
Address Book
entire home directory - 2 ways

These are all great and very necessary if you use a laptop for business but none of them are straightforward
I say this because they all require the command line, which I don't use AT ALL. Even though I can do them, for example i can't UNDO them if I want

I once encrypted my home directory which was fine but it did create some Finder issues [my public folder was unreachable across the network, couldn't see my home folder in open/save dialogs without using 'go to']
and iSync broke

I am not afraid of the commoand line but I don't like the idea of doing something so critical that I don't entirely understand
I already use disk copy encrypted disk images for project files etc
I don't use entourage
What I would really love is a setup option or third party application that makes it easy to secure Mail, iCal and Address Book
I have not tried PGP, is it the right thing for this?

[car1son]

See also AppleCare Knowledge Base article 107332: About Encrypted Disk Images


and
How to Create an Encrypted Disk Image

[car1son]

Your first two links seem pretty straightforward. All they are trying to do is move your Mail and Addresses folders onto an encrypted disk image and replace them with a link (so Mail and Address Book will find them.) I do just that with my Entourage data.

Unfortunately in the case of Mail, using a normal OS X alias doesn't seem to work quite right (I just tried it, I've no idea why), and the posters have discovered that using a Unix link (which is very much like a Finder alias, created with the "ln" command from the Terminal) does. So they did that.

[Rainy Day]

What I would really love is a setup option or third party application that makes it easy to secure Mail, iCal and Address Book
I have not tried PGP, is it the right thing for this?

PGP can be used to encrypt individual eMails, which are then sent to someone else (or decrypt incoming messages), which of course is different from the DiskCopy approach. There is, however, something called PGP Disk, which is very similar to the Disk Copy approach. PGP can also be used to encrypt files on your HD, which is somewhat different.

To encrypt individual Mail messages, you might want to check out GPGMail.

[sideus]

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