Posted: 11/12/2007 5:45:07 AM EDT
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There are plenty of "File Shredders" available on the net to delete (overwrite) files that you want permanently erased from your computer, but what about an email eraser? Any Suggestions, Thanks! |
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E-mail is generally stored on a remote server. You don't have access rights to overwrite the disk sectors where it is stored. If you are talking about some e-mail you downloaded in Outlook Express, your inbox nothing more than a regular file, and can be dealt with as any other file. |
That's a cute bit of misinformation. Make sure your tinfoil hat is on tight. There is no technical way to enforce this, as e-mails don't travel through some mass clearing-house, where they can be stored. E-mails travel from the sender's server, directly to the recipient's server, via private and public networks. Once sent, the sender can delete their copy of the e-mail. the recipient can delete their copy, effectively deleting it from the server. Retention and archiving can be set up at the server level (as is required in some organizations for legal or financial reasons), but there is no federal requirement to store all e-mails. Nor could there be, with the current way e-mail traffic is handled. |