[MlMt] OT: iOS mail client

[Sam Hathaway]

Folks — This thread is now OT even from its original OT topic, and 
we’ve already discussed the privacy situation with server-assisted 
email clients to death within living memory. Maybe now would be a good 
time to take this off list?
-sam

On 5 Sep 2020, at 13:20, Antonio Leding wrote:

> Apologies if I missed this — and I’m not advocating using Spark 
> (far from it) — but nowhere in any of Readdle’s (maker of Spark) 
> policies nor their blog about privacy did I see where they actually 
> store credentials on their servers.  They do say “Spark needs access 
> to usernames & passwords” but I interpret this to mean the app which 
> is the same for all IMAP clients most notably the one I am using right 
> now - Mailmate.
>
> If you have a different interpretation or know where I missed it, 
> please share… :=)
>
>
>
> On 5 Sep 2020, at 8:07, Charlie Garrison wrote:
>
>> On 6 Sep 2020, at 0:13, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>>
>>> If I understand this correctly, Spark's architecture requires them 
>>> to
>>> have access to your email passwords. To me, that's a complete
>>> non-starter; your email password is the most important one you
>>> have, since it can be used to reset all of your other passwords.
>>
>> That's an important distinction too. It's the difference between 
>> giving someone the keys to your house (Spark) -vs- letting them peer 
>> through the front door (Edison).
>>
>> I don't want anyone doing either, but they are still very different 
>> risk profiles. It's not ok with me when companies hide either 
>> behaviour.
>>
>> -cng
>>
>>
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>>
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