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Warning: New Outlook sends passwords, mails and other data to Microsoft | mailbox.org (mailbox.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't see how this is any different from adding another e-mail account on gmail.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The program it replaced didn't do this, hence the surprise. You could be using the old program, and one day windows update it with this new program, and suddenly your passwords are uploaded to Microsoft cloud service when you launched it. People would similarly surprised if K-9 mail upcoming replacement, Thunderbird mobile, suddenly store your password in the cloud.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why is someone using Outlook to sync a different email address?

Why not keep the apps separate? Or use the Mail app built into Windows?

Seriously, someone explain the use case here because I don't understand. If you're using an outlook account, MS already has all that stuff. And if you don't have an Outlook account, why are you using Outlook?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Why is someone using Outlook to sync a different email address?

Outlook is an email client. It can work with any email provider. The fact that they started calling the server-side "Outlook" as well has made things super confusing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or use the Mail app built into Windows?

So the gist is the default mail app is being "upgraded" by Microsoft to Outlook for Windows app, so your account credentials previously stored in the mail app now got uploaded into the cloud.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Oh gross. Yeah, that's not okay.

Thanks for the clarification

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Configuring local software vs delegating to a web service