Hi Adam! > I'm afraid that, similar to the current debian-devel thread about leaving > old (possibly subsequently purged) mails on .icedove->.thunderbird > transition, Icedove/Thunderbird leaves the whole IMAP cache on the disk > when you delete an account.
I suggest reporting this bug upstream as this would probably require some more involved changes to Thunderbird itself and I'm not sure whether the maintainers of the package in Debian can or want to do that. Personally I think that this issue does not warrant a grave severity bug report as I don't think you can expect a regular mail client to meet certain security standards like the "Common Criteria Certification" which require safe deletion of email cache data. Even if Thunderbird was to delete the cached mail data, authorities would still have means of data forensics to restore that information. If you have personal concerns about data leaking from personal harddisks, I would recommend encrypting your disks. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
