full-disclosure - thunderbird privacy...

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Date: Tue Jun 21 10:40:29 2005
From: christos_gentsis at yahoo.co.uk (christos_gentsis@...oo.co.uk)
Subject: thunderbird privacy...

hello anyone

I'm making this post even if i'm not sure if this is considered as a security 
problem... in my point of view it is a privacy/security issue... 

after trying to turn from thunderbird to the Kmail mailer i found out that all 
my mail appear to the files that the thunderbird store the mails... even if i 
had delete the mails months or years ago... i know that this my be considered 
as a privacy problem but in practice this information that remain in the 
system may put in dangerous your security...(passwords that supposed to 
appear there and after be erased remain etc...)

can someone that use thunderbird check out the files inside the .thunderbird 
folder and tell me if this a problem in general or there is something odd 
with my program... the chance to be something wring with me is too small 
because i copy this folder from one installation to the other... until now 
that erase completely the folder after importing the mail to Kmail...

NOTE: this was to SuSe and Slackware installations... i don't know that 
happens in the windows port of the thunderbird.

thanks for your time

Christos