Besides Thunderbird, is there any good desktop mail client for Windows that doesn’t involve uploading mail to a cloud first?
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Thunderbird.
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You had one job…
What do you mean by uploading to the cloud first? Any email goes over the internet
There was a Linux client I saw a while ago—Spring Mail or something like that?—which first downloaded your email from your provider onto their own servers, then your local client got them from their server. This additional cloud step is what I want to avoid.
Em client is pretty good. I’m using the pro version and its the what Outlook replacement I have used so far.
There is also Mailbird (not FOSS, costs money and has some weird NordVPN-like fake sales, but the app seems somewhat competent) and Mailspring (partly open source but afaik not completely, built with a MacOS-esque UI but works for Windows and Linux as well).
Say “MacOS-esque” three times really fast.
Have you tried the Thunderbird redesign yet?
Claws Mail
The built-in Mail app is pretty nice, other than that eM Client is good too
Then why are you recommending them. This is the FOSS community.
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.
That’s going to be killed off in favor of Outlook in the near future, from what I understand.
If OP is willing to do a bit of extra legwork and somewhat masochistic, then pretty much any Linux-based mail client is fair game with WSL2. The only one I’ve used lately other than Thunderbird is Evolution, but that was just to test a particular distro’s default offering.
