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K-9 Mail is now Thunderbird (blog.thunderbird.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago by gerlen@suppo.fi to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[-] mvmike@lemmy.ml 66 points 2 weeks ago

[-] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 44 points 2 weeks ago

K9 isn't going anywhere. It's still K9, just rebranded and improved.

[-] shekau@lemmy.today 21 points 2 weeks ago

Its just a name changing

[-] Krzd@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Nope. They initially added some data scraping parts, and apparently still use some form of telemetry without proper disclosure.

[-] kixik@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

What telemetry is enabled? Is there a way to disable it?

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

This hasn't been proven in any way. Original op in link states it could be discovery for email domains.

[-] Krzd@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

See https://lemmy.world/comment/13252949 I haven't tested it myself though

[-] kixik@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

What they're saying there is that when trying to auto detect the server configurations, there are unexpected connections to cloudfare IPs, which didn't usually happen with K9. Who posted the concern associated this to telemetry, but the answers are pointing a different direction. But at this point it just guesses, :(

I guess some more formal traffic inspection needs to happen to understand if truly there's unexpected traffic, where it is directed to, and hopefully infer somehow its purpose. The guesses about what's happening suggest it's just about the auto connection, but again, just guesses.

I explored the configurations, and I didn't find anything about telemetry, and so neither how to disable it. K9 does not have an about:config advanced configuration like desktop Thunderbird does, so if there's truly telemetry or some other sort of information leakage, then after proving it, perhaps developers realize they can do better. But so far nothing really proving telemetry or information leakage.

[-] theotherben@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Are there any updates on this?

[-] kixik@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Not sure what updates you are expecting to happen.

I'm not aware of any effort trying to identify the traffic going in and out on Thunderbird under android. The guesses from the one reporting about what happens when configuring a new email account is of no use since it's easily associated to Thunderbird looking for ways to easy automation on new accounts settings.

Unless there's a throughout analysis of the traffic, I'm not aware of anything to be expected. You can try reaching the one reporting his concern, and ask if he has looked into how to report an actual issue/bug to Thunderbird, or if someone else has done it