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K-9 Mail is now Thunderbird (blog.thunderbird.net)
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[-] Krzd@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago
[-] kixik@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

What they're saying there is that when trying to auto detect the server configurations, there are unexpected connections to cloudfare IPs, which didn't usually happen with K9. Who posted the concern associated this to telemetry, but the answers are pointing a different direction. But at this point it just guesses, :(

I guess some more formal traffic inspection needs to happen to understand if truly there's unexpected traffic, where it is directed to, and hopefully infer somehow its purpose. The guesses about what's happening suggest it's just about the auto connection, but again, just guesses.

I explored the configurations, and I didn't find anything about telemetry, and so neither how to disable it. K9 does not have an about:config advanced configuration like desktop Thunderbird does, so if there's truly telemetry or some other sort of information leakage, then after proving it, perhaps developers realize they can do better. But so far nothing really proving telemetry or information leakage.

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

The ONLY connection I want my mail client to make, is the one to my configured mail server.

EVERY other connection it makes is to be seen as malicious.

[-] theotherben@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Are there any updates on this?

[-] kixik@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Not sure what updates you are expecting to happen.

I'm not aware of any effort trying to identify the traffic going in and out on Thunderbird under android. The guesses from the one reporting about what happens when configuring a new email account is of no use since it's easily associated to Thunderbird looking for ways to easy automation on new accounts settings.

Unless there's a throughout analysis of the traffic, I'm not aware of anything to be expected. You can try reaching the one reporting his concern, and ask if he has looked into how to report an actual issue/bug to Thunderbird, or if someone else has done it

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