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Any time I want to watch my emails I just go to the web ui for it. I doubt any 3rd party client will ever come close to what google and Microsoft offer for their own email accounts.
I'd prefer not to go to their Web UIs because of how much tracking is present on those sites (adding rules and filters to ublock origin for Gmail nearly killed me). I'd prefer a FOSS option.
… they already have your emails. Not only that, but just about everything else they could possibly want to know about you.
Unless you plan on moving to a more private provider I wouldn’t worry about that.
Agreed, and I do plan to move to other providers. I should add that I find a desktop client convenient, and I don't mind the Thunderbird UI at the moment. Unfortunately, lack of a single feature breaks it for me
check out tutamail.
My understanding with Tuta is that you cannot configure it to work with a third party desktop email client though, you are locked in to using theirs. You can't configure a Tuta email address to work with
muttor something for example I believe as there is no regular imap/pop like there are for services that don't use E2EE, or services that have some form of bridge for that like Proton did.Maybe I am misinformed though.