I have been using KDE for a while, while I like many features I am looking for suggestions to the default email client:

Kmail - completely unusable for me and the only one which could maybe be integrated with kontacts, it could not receive mails from IMAP or pop or would receive only sometimes

Geary - good but too minimal, I need at least some kind of contact list and mailing lists feature, maybe this integrates with gnome contacts? I couldn’t find anything in settings

  • Random Dent@lemmy.ml
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    8 days ago

    Not the above poster, but for me: it’s a slight concern but AFAIK the profiles are interchangeable so it’s pretty trivial to just switch back to Thunderbird if anything does happen.

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      8 days ago

      Sure but, your mail would still be in someone else’s hands. Mail is pretty sensitive data, and to let one person run the frontend is risky at best. At least Thunderbird has multiple people looking at the code.

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        8 days ago

        That‘s not how it works. The mails are not stored on BetterBird servers (there are none). Your mails are stored on your E-Mail providers server (like Gmail) and downloaded to your local client via IMAP or POP3.

        The developer of BetterBird does not have access to any of that.

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          8 days ago

          Oh, understood. Dumb me, lol.

          So, aren’t there security risks associated with using Betterbird?