[Dovecot] Shredding instead of deleting

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On 14/09/11 15:26, Timo Sirainen wrote:

>> 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.

Simple for somebody who can code in C you mean :)

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