Re: Secure delete of Mail's trash and junk
Re: Secure delete of Mail's trash and junk
- Subject: Re: Secure delete of Mail's trash and junk
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:11:01 -0700
On Apr 14, 2006, at 6:13 PM, Irwin Poche wrote:
I working on a "clean up" script to move a number of files/folders
to the trash so that I can do a Secure Empty Trash of them. I want
to do this with Mail's junk and trash.
From ~/Library/Mail trashing folders with the words "Deleted
Messages" in the name was successful. Not so with the Junk
folders. Junk mail was still present in Mail but they appeared in
the inboxes. The Junk folder (that Mail itself displays in the
GUI) was empty. Recreating the deleted Junk folders brought
everything back to normal.
Telling Mail to move it's junk mail into its trash would be another
solution but I'm not sure how to go about that. The other solution
would be trashing the correct files/folders ~/Library/Mail but I
now believe that is not a viable solution.
Ideas anyone ?
I asked the Mail team, and they say that there isn't any safe way to
do this: "Touching files in ~/Library/Mail/ is definitely a bad idea
unless you want to reverse engineer our SQLite db as well. Not that
that's a good idea either." In other words, if you can get it to
work, fine, but it's proceed-at-your-own-risk.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript and Automator Engineering
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