Frequently Asked Questions: Thunderbird Mobile and K-9 Mail
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An evolving list of frequently asked questions about Thunderbird on Android, and K-9 Mail joining the Thunderbird family.
      • Krzd@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

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

            • kixik@lemmy.ml
              0·
              1 month 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.

              • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
                1·
                3 days ago

                The ONLY connection I want my mail client to make, is the one to my configured mail server.

                EVERY other connection it makes is to be seen as malicious.

      • cheese_greater@lemmy.world
        01·
        2 months ago

        Mozilla is non-profit. I wish they could sell it as a one-time or something as I dont mind supporting them if they’re doing useful capitalistic things like that. Very few actually private mail client apps for iOS. I only know of two and Canary is not one of them