[android-developers] Re: Remotely wipe mail in android.

On 07/31/2012 03:53 PM, The Simple wrote:
> I am developing an application which will remotely wipe all corporate
> mail send to the employee ,when the employee leave the organization.I
> googled for a day but did not find any suitable solution
> for wipe email. So please give me some idea to wipe the email remotely
> using SMS.
>
> During my search I come across so many apps is doing the email wipe
> remotely. How they do it…?
>
> Note: company employee have permission to use any mail client.
>

I think you can not do what you want, at least not without heavily hacking
the device of your employees. Email clients can make local copies and
are not obliged to obey any remote commands.

If all company mail is stored on an IMAP server and if user's mail
clients do not make local copies, then just delete the mails on your
company's IMAP server.
Mostly the mail clients will also remove the mails locally if the IMAP
server signals they were deleted.

I'd further suggest to pay a lot of attention, whether what you try to
do is legal in your country of residence.


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