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Windows mail app other than Thunderbird?
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this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2023
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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.
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."
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 toroot-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.)
They could, but we don't know. Not using their mail app at least makes that a possibility.
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.