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

[alb348 at gmail.com]

*Andreas Fink* (finkandreas at web.de) wrote: 
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 >Sorry for this: You're talking about privacy problems and are using a 
gmail
 >account at the same time? Kind of contradictory for me ;)

LOL.
Yes, seriously, if I were hard pressed to choose, I would rather have 
Google know all about me than letting the contacts in my addressbook 
read my current IP address.
Google, and all other servers, will know everything about you anyway, 
but have no special interest in you as an individual. You are just a 
statistics, one in hundreds of millions. By contrast, I see it as much 
more threatening that my employer or other people I know can so easily 
read my current IP address in all my emails, for the reasons I hinted to 
earlier.
Which one would you rather choose?

 >To summarize your request (and also for me, if I understood you 
right): Basically all you want is not using the SMTP protocol but, 
somehow sending the email via the web interface... This sounds like you 
do not even want to see the web interface, you just care about hiding 
your IP address.

That's exactly right. Not wanting to see the web interface is just for 
making things smoother, seamless for the user. But that is no problem in 
itself.

 >Just use Tor, if you really care that much about being tracked by your 
IP address. What you suggest is a hacked solution, as any change in the 
web-interface basically renders the plugin into a broken state, as this 
is not a public API...  I'm not a developer of claws-mail, but I'm 
programming from time to time, and I know that I would never ever 
implement something like your request, as it is damned for being broken 
90% of the time. It's like changing the source code every second/third 
day (at least if you support more than just gmail)

You have got a point there. I'll have to consider the Tor solution, if 
none of you guys picks up my proposal.
However, the Webmail Notifier add-on in Thunderbird does work, and when 
the web interface changes, it is duly updated (yes, I know, it's a pain 
in the neck for the maintainer, but...). "90% of the time" is a bit of 
an exaggeration, though, because Thunderbird's add-on (which already 
implements part of what I proposed) works fine most of the time.