re: #51 lostlakehiker

If East Anglia is anything like most schools, emails are permanently logged for future reference in the event of criminal charges, civil lawsuits, etc. Deleting emails protects them from being hacked into and spread around, (assuming you get around to the deletion before the hackers hack in) but it doesn’t outright erase the data.

More than half of what you delete on your HD isn’t actually deleted. It’s recoverable. I have an application that can do that.