Given the nature of the unix filesystem and the specific nature of MAILDIR I'd say that if you have a reasonable amount of activity any deleted email will be RAPIDLY unrecoverable, (1) the inode will be reused so all of the links to the blocks will vanish, (2) the individual blocks themselves will be overwritten. <scw>
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 09:54:54PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -----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 > -- ----- Stephen C. Woods; UCLA SEASnet; 2567 Boelter hall; LA CA 90095; (310)-825-8614 Unless otherwise noted these statements are my own, Not those of the University of California. Internet mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Courier-imap mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
