[Users] Privacy issue (was Webmail support in Claws Mail )

alb348 at gmail.com alb348 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 30 22:15:02 CET 2012


Brad Rogers (brad at fineby.me.uk) wrote:

 >You keep on about webmail. So why not use it? All you need is (fx: 
drum roll) a web browser. After all, that's the tool that web mail was 
designed for. Claws is a mail user agent, MUA for short. It patently 
*isn't* a web browser. --

Ok. I have already explained this in my reply to Andreas. But I will 
complete the answer.
What I want is simply to bypass the privacy violation inherent in the 
SMTP protocol.
Ideally, I want to use Claws Mail for my emails, not webmail. I don't 
want to be using a browser, at all.
Using the webmail would only be a workaround to be used for sending 
emails more securely. For all the rest, I would use Claws Mail as normal.
If the procedure that I sketched in my reply to Andreas is found to be 
feasible, and implemented, the whole problem will be solved: the user 
would still be using Claws Mail, 100% as usual, because the dirty work 
(via the webmail) would be done by Claws Mail in the background, so we 
don't even notice.





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