RFE: Let me limit the mails I can see when logging in from an untrusted location

[mss]

As requested here, this is my feature request which would make Mailpile make me feel a lot better when have to read my mail from some location I don't trust. A typical example is that I have to use an untrusted machine in an internet cafe somewhere in the middle of nowhere (no Wifi, can't use my notebook) to confirm a last minute mail. Or to tell my people that my other devices were stolen.

I call this the Vacation Mode: If I log in and Vacation Mode gets activated, I have a (configurable) limited view on my mails. For example, only the last 30 days of my inbox, no archive folders.

How could this mode be activated? From the top of my head I can imagine a few possibilities:

• The GeoIP database says I'm somewhere else where I wasn't yesterday.
• I have a special vacation password.
• I can generate a list of one time passwords (ie. TANs) which I carry around with me and which I have to type in on top of that vacation password (I guess this is a separate RFE).
• I logged in but didn't have the second element of my two factor authentication (because somebody stole my phone with the generator).

[uktu]

@mss That's a great idea! Options 2 and 3 (special passwords) offer a user lots of flexibility in how "safe mode" is used.

@brennannovak Here are some possible configuration options:

Settings (Safe Mode)

Display all emails since (select one)
o Previous login
o Previous ------ days
o Fixed date: Now or -- -- -- (specify date)

Filters (optional)
Only include emails satisfying filter ------
Do not include emails satisfying filter ------

The purpose of the filter options is to ensure that e.g.

1. Personal emails don't show up at work.
2. Emails of interest to a given country's government don't show up when you're using a computer in that country.
3. Only those emails you are specifically waiting for show up when you are on an untrusted computer.

Together, these options are sufficient to provide fine-grained control over stored email access, in a way that permits content segmentation and enhances security without requiring a user to establish multiple email addresses for different uses.