On 14.9.2011, at 17.15, dove...@lists.grepular.com wrote: > On 14/09/11 15:06, Timo Sirainen wrote: > >>> 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: >> >> Well, the choices are: .. > Is there no general wishlist area for Dovecot then?
There's my internal TODO list distributed with source code :) > I didn't necessarily > expect the functionality to be packaged with Dovecot, but thought that > somebody might pick up the idea and write a plugin for it if it was > written down somewhere. I guess some wishlist page could be added to wiki, but I don't know if it would be all that useful. Few people want to code features they don't want themselves, and things I want to add are already being added to my own TODO list. > From a privacy/security perspective, making sure > deleted email isn't recoverable does have real value for some people. I > did consider FUSE. I might tackle that one myself. I don't really have > the expertise to modify Dovecot it's self though. The LD_PRELOAD way would be simple. Probably 10-20 lines of C code for something that would replace unlink()s to mail files with fork+exec to /usr/bin/shred.
