Sure. Apple Mail is now so generic, I'm not sure why anyone would use it except out of habit (umm I include myself in that).
Well, we have to use something
If I read the legalese print of that... it also says that whatever offending email content, including the Body of the email itself and any Metadata, would be subject for review by Microsoft. Which means, I just gave them license to scour and access content, including allowing them to store the content of the email on their own servers.
GMail and Google is actually quite popular... "cool" with the young generations, Gen Z, etc.
I can see how maybe they would want that e-mail content to train their junk mail filters, and why they are asking for permission to use that. What I'm less clear about is whether we're giving Microsoft permission to download and access ALL of our e-mails, simply by using Outlook. I would tend to think not, since that's a heckuva lot of data to store for every single user of Outlook out there. Still, I wouldn't put it past them. Data harvesting to improve system and software functionality is a real sore spot these days. I realize that it has to be done automatically and algorithmically by necessity, but it still pays to read the fine print (which I, like many people, seldom find the time to do when it comes to software).
It's Google paying Apple. Apple is the one getting paid.
Hi. So this "no content" message is a bug? Thought it was my provider's fault. Hot used to live with it. Do you know what's causing this bug?
This is exactly what I was worried about. Every time I think about increasing my use of Microsoft (the 4000 NVIDIA laptops look so choice) I see crap like this. GRRRR. No thanks. I guess I better stick with Apple Mail and using Advanced Data Protection.
I guess that's how I felt about Google too in the 00s - I didn't think about the tradeoffs at all.
I have an outlook.com email account, so I'm only talking about mail.app in the context of that (I did use gmail with mail.app for about 15 years until a few years ago).
I don’t see that that is not handling conversation threading. It keeps all of the messages back and forth in a single conversation regardless of which folder they are in; both sent and received. It may not be the strategy you expect but it seems perfectly valid. If I am deleting a thread, why would I expect it to leave some messages behind while deleting others?
The catch is that you’re the product. Plus the new “One Outlook” is pretty crap. But your data is the product so the app becomes their “free” portal into more of the data profile that comprises you.
There is no such thing as a free lunch. If its published price is “free”, ask how is it paid for? Typically it means you're the product. Your data profile is used to model their product on the most benign end or becomes sold on the open market in the worst case scenario.
Would be pretty hard to use an email client without it having access to your contacts etc, but do stay afraid of the boogie man
Why would you care about the privacy of a spammer or phishing emailer? Why would you submit anything else?
People that actually use it can click on settings, privacy and manage as desired...
