Sounds like a program that many would have a use for.

Politicians and CEOs will love it.
No more incriminating emails being stored on Corporate or Government servers.

What's the bet that it wil be legal for Corporations and the Governement to use it, but it will be declared illegal for ordinary users to use it (just like high level encryption).

Yeah. right. Because taking screen-shots (or pulling out your smart-phone and taking a pic of the screen) won't totally spoof that from day 0, and Teh Internetz won't reliably elaborate a software solution that replaces the client within 4 months.

This will work only on locked-down workstations/networks in places where you cannot take pics of the screen. Just because this system is an invitation to do evil/stupid stuff, and there is high interest in spoofing it to expose it.

And I personally disagree.
Hey you are an adult, not a monkey, so before sending you must know the risks.

lehnerus2000 said:

Politicians and CEOs will love it.
No more incriminating emails being stored on Corporate or Government servers.

What's the bet that it wil be legal for Corporations and the Governement to use it, but it will be declared illegal for ordinary users to use it (just like high level encryption).

This I can totally see happening and anyone who uses it besides the Government and Political figures Ceo's and such will have you arrested and incriminated for obstruction of justice lol catch 22 if you ask me

You might have something Solarstarshine.

obstruction of justice lol catch 22 if you ask me

It might be considered as destroying evidence.

yes, but that applies if someone gets some evidence that evidence was destroyed.

And it's not hard to make a system that does not leave any trace to do something like this. Just don't log stuff.

Although sysadmins will probably refuse to operate the system (yeah, run a company server without logs so you cannot troubleshoot the 3-5 workstations that don't connect or malfunction somehow every week).

Once your email leaves your computer it goes to a email cloud before it goes to the place you sent it. Once in the cloud who know what can be done with it.

From the last line of the OP:

The application outlines an e-mail client system and server application that can send and receive messages that self-delete.

The system employs dedicated clients AND servers. Not standard mail servers (that have logs). Otherwise it is even more stupid.