Hi, On 13.02.2013 22:47, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > One item is how long providers retain mail, after you delete it. Some > don't store at all; - to hrs / days / months / indefinitely.
It is unlikely that any mail provider wipes/shreds mails on deletion and while they go through the various processing stages. [1] Even if they use an encrypted file system (another doubt there, why should they; probably not even encrypted swap), as long as the system is up and running the mail could be recovered from various places. A big problem also is backups: Most of us do want backups. It is quite hard to design a backup system that allows you to remove files selectively later. If that is even what you want, since it is a backup and you might have deleted the file by mistake. I don't know of any mail provider that offers to selectively exclude accounts/aliases from backup. Same for IP logs. Are they stored on a tmpfs, shredded on deletion? How long are they kept? Even Autistici and Riseup will keep some IP/user logs to kill spamming accounts? I doubt 24hours is enough... Another neat feature would be accounts where the Maildir completely live on a tmpfs -- including spool etc. If there was any money in this, at least to cover costs, I would have started a mail provider myself long time ago. Another showstopper is that in Germany, every mail provider is required to install a law enforcement blackbox and retain shitloads of logs if they have more than 9999 customers. [1] http://moblog.wiredwings.com/archives/20130206/Linux-Automatically-shredding-files-before-deletion.html -- Moritz Bartl https://www.torservers.net/ _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
