[Dovecot] Shredding instead of deleting

Mike Cardwell dovecot at lists.grepular.com
Wed Sep 14 16:46:10 EEST 2011


Hi,

I have a wishlist item. Is there an appropriate place for me to post it?
Basically, I would like to know that my email isn't recoverable from the
local disk on the mail server after I delete it. So instead of just
deleting the file from my Maildir, I'd like the option to exist for
Dovecot to shred it.. Ie, overwrite the file with random data and/or
null bytes before deletion. In the same way that GNU shred behaves:

https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/shred-invocation.html

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