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Windows mail app other than Thunderbird? (lemmy.cafe)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Besides Thunderbird, is there any good desktop mail client for Windows that doesn't involve uploading mail to a cloud first?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Then why are you recommending them. This is the FOSS community.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And that's why I'm explicitly noting that they're not FOSS, doofus. Besides, if you're using Windows anyway, using its built-in email client is not a huge stretch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean, yes. But why would I want my emails also to go through the spyware OS. What you're saying sounds like "you're already using a OS that tracks everything, giving them your emails at this point wouldn't hurt."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They could already have access to your emails, because… you’re running their OS. They can slip in any code they want and run it with NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM-level privileges (comparable to root-level privileges on Linux systems).

If you run any other OS you’ll also have to trivially trust the makers of that OS with root-level privileges (or comparable).

(Personally I don’t believe that MS is scanning all your local emails, but they certainly have the technical possibilities to do so very trivially.)

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago

They could, but we don't know. Not using their mail app at least makes that a possibility.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is the FOSS community.

Given people are regularly promoting proprietary trash and being upvoted for it, while people taking a pro-FOSS stance are downvoted, I don't think this is a FOSS community in anything but name anymore.

At the very least I'd have hoped we'd left the childish name calling behind at reddit, but it seems you can't really take the reddit out of the redditor.