207536 - email not really deleting keywords: security overflow bug email virus

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 183837

(MailNews Core :: Security, defect)

Description

[Lindsay]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

using Mozilla 1.3, receive an email in inbox then delete it and empty trash in
Mozilla email client; then use any text editor like Notepad etc. and look at the
content of the inbox file, the message will still be there but will not show in
the inbox i.e. it has not really been deleted. The is a major problem for
security archieving of emails, virus loaded email full deletions and file size
control.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Received an email
2.delete that email and empty trash in email client
3. view email file with text editor
4. email still exists in file but does not show in Mozilla email client

Actual Results:  
answered in summary and steps

Expected Results:  
fully deleted the given email and its contents

Comment 1

[Lindsay]

using Mozilla 1.3, receive an email in inbox then delete it and empty trash in
Mozilla email client; then use any text editor like Notepad etc. and look at the
content of the inbox file, the message will still be there but will not show in
the inbox i.e. it has not really been deleted. The is a major problem for
security archieving of emails, virus loaded email full deletions and file size
control.

Comment 2

[Henrik Gemal]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 183837 ***