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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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.”

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        1 year ago

        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.)

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          1 year ago

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

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        But why would I want my emails also to go through the spyware OS

        Beats me, but you’re the one using Windows, so…

        If your email provider offers a webmail client, then you might give that a shot, though it’s still going to run under Windows.