-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
As we all know, emails can have very sensitive information in them. Deleting them, though, just does a ulink(), which means they can be recovered with a modest bit of technical knowledge. So, I propose that an option be added to shred email files before they are ulinked. GNU Shred does an adequate (and fast) job of this, and is license-compatible with Courier, so it "should" be easy to implement using the relevant routines from GNU fileutils. http://www.gnu.org/software/fileutils/doc/manual/html/fileutils.html Since not every FS works well with shred, it should be an option in the imapd config file. Yes, this is not perfect, and has limitations, and can be downright *slow* if you decide to shred 10,000 files with 25 overwrites, but is better than nothing, and as I said, "should" be easy to implement. Thoughts? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEl2N+S9HxQb37XmcRAka+AKCEAO7M+Sxo8cU3mt/DJlqX0GhmXwCg66QD 53mhtvtmG7/q1cZx293cfrE= =g5RO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Courier-imap mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
