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Posted on 28 August 2006. Last updated on 04 May 2019.
If you send your email, it is transferred over the internet in clear text. It passes through different servers and then ends in the mailbox of the reciever.
Even if the reciever deletes the email it doesn't mean that the email is destroyed. Any of the servers your email passes through can store you email. And this does happen!
The only thing you can do is encrypt your message. You can do this yourself, but there are some cool (free) online services that do it for you.
Note that this is not the same as anomail or remailers.
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is a good tool to encrypt emails.
Here are 2 software packets based on it:
A browser addon for webmail:
https://www.mailvelope.com/en
You can find a more complete guide written by Jacob Roach on
https://www.cloudwards.net/email-security/
