> Great, now that you are in. All my e-mails are encrypted on server's disk with a mix of S/MIME and GPG. So what? Hiding your old email content might be valua

> Great, now that you are in. All my e-mails are encrypted on server's disk with a mix of S/MIME and GPG. So what? Hiding your old email content might be valuable from a privacy point of view but if you cared about that you'd just delete them from the server to begin with. What a hacker cares about is the ability to receive new emails (password recovery). Those emails are still sent to you in clear text. He might also care about getting a list of past senders (to know what accounts you might have) and that info isn't encrypted by GPG, only the content.