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Andrew McGregor

It is marked as deleted and its encryption keys are destroyed, at which point it immediately stops being used for anything.

But the email itself sticks around, encrypted, for a short while until the storage system does a garbage collection. That’s fine though, because the keys are gone and nothing can decrypt it.

Any analysis that would ever be done on an email happens while it is delivered, not after the fact.

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Andrew McGregor

Andrew McGregor

13 years professional orchestra bass player.
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