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

  • dot20@lemmy.world
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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.