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Maybe I'm strange, but I've always regarded browser or email add-ons/extensions as likely to have the same level of system access as the program they're running
by fencepost 9y ago
Maybe I'm strange, but I've always regarded browser or email add-ons/extensions as likely to have the same level of system access as the program they're running in. You're running a program in a scriptable environment, it's no different than complaining that shell scripts can do terrible things to your system.
I applaud them for finding the actual bugs though, and hopefully those will be addressed promptly.
That said, what decent mail clients still exist? It seems like it's all webmail, phones, Outlook, or Thunderbird (which has had its own spate of "does it have a future").
- slrz 9y agoThere's always Mutt, of course. Easily beats the ones you listed, especially when handling larger volumes of mail. Development picked up some steam again in recent years, with forks like mutt-kz[1] (now deprecated and folded into neomutt[2]) integrating awesome search functionality. Claws Mail has some fans, too, and might be more accessible to Thunderbird users. [1] https://github.com/karelzak/mutt-kz https://github.com/karelzak/mutt-kz [2] https://www.neomutt.org https://www.neomutt.org