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A method to securely empty trashed Mail messages
Authored by: brant on Nov 10, '04 11:03:35AM
sorry, forgot to set post mode, couldn't edit: why not just set up a cron script to erase the contents of the folder whenever you want? from this hint: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031025092806502 you could set the cron job
crontab -e
to erase the file by doing such:
/usr/bin/srm -mz ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/"Trash it.mbox"
according to the hint posted above this will overwrite the file with 7 DoD Passes and then overwrite the block with 0s.

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