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Although, in reality, that doesn't make it more secure.

qz3 8y ago
On a desktop app, you can see what kind of request the program makes and which servers it contacts. With a webapp, you'll never know what the app does.
- crystaln 8y ago
  How so? It's quite simple to tell what a web app does in my understanding. Chrome has many good monitoring tools.
  - dillondoyle 8y ago
    The webapp can send your data wherever once it has the data, chrome won't log http requests if they were made server to server etc
    - methyl 8y ago
      Isn't it the case for any app?
      - Qwertie 8y ago
        The logic is a native app can make a direct IMAP connection to the mail server and you can check it is doing so where as a web app has to send the login details to a server which does IMAP for the client and you can not see this last part.
    - gsich 8y ago
      A native application can do that too.
- alimbada 8y ago
  You can do the same in your browser by opening the developer tools and in fact it comes built in to the browser whereas on a desktop you'd have to install another app like Wireshark/Fiddler to see those requests.
  - stephenr 8y ago
    That only tells you what your browser sends to their server. It doesn't tell you what connections their server makes.
    - crystaln 8y ago
      Nothing will. The vulnerability of what happens to your data after it is sent to a third party is the same for any app, web or native. The biggest difference is that it's way easier to see where you're data is being sent in a browser, since it has built in tools. It's very hard to monitor native app traffic that is sent over SSL.
      - stephenr 8y ago
        When the app is native there no requirement for a third party server. You, Your mail (provider) server. Vs You, the server hosting the web app, your mail (provider) server.
- pritambaral 8y ago
  > With a webapp, you'll never know what the app does. Unless you run uMatrix or uBlock Origin (same code in both as far as this feature is concerned), of course.
- progx 8y ago
  Nonsens. Every traffic can be monitored, web app or native app, that is not important.
Tepix 8y ago
That depends on the user.
ryan-c 8y ago
It's not possible to make a web-based email client that speaks to the IMAP/SMTP server directly. Only a "native" (electron can do this) client can use those protocols.

qz3 8y ago

On a desktop app, you can see what kind of request the program makes and which servers it contacts. With a webapp, you'll never know what the app does.

crystaln 8y ago
How so? It's quite simple to tell what a web app does in my understanding. Chrome has many good monitoring tools.
- dillondoyle 8y ago
  The webapp can send your data wherever once it has the data, chrome won't log http requests if they were made server to server etc
  - methyl 8y ago
    Isn't it the case for any app?
    - Qwertie 8y ago
      The logic is a native app can make a direct IMAP connection to the mail server and you can check it is doing so where as a web app has to send the login details to a server which does IMAP for the client and you can not see this last part.
  - gsich 8y ago
    A native application can do that too.
alimbada 8y ago
You can do the same in your browser by opening the developer tools and in fact it comes built in to the browser whereas on a desktop you'd have to install another app like Wireshark/Fiddler to see those requests.
- stephenr 8y ago
  That only tells you what your browser sends to their server. It doesn't tell you what connections their server makes.
  - crystaln 8y ago
    Nothing will. The vulnerability of what happens to your data after it is sent to a third party is the same for any app, web or native. The biggest difference is that it's way easier to see where you're data is being sent in a browser, since it has built in tools. It's very hard to monitor native app traffic that is sent over SSL.
    - stephenr 8y ago
      When the app is native there no requirement for a third party server. You, Your mail (provider) server. Vs You, the server hosting the web app, your mail (provider) server.
pritambaral 8y ago
> With a webapp, you'll never know what the app does. Unless you run uMatrix or uBlock Origin (same code in both as far as this feature is concerned), of course.
progx 8y ago
Nonsens. Every traffic can be monitored, web app or native app, that is not important.

Tepix 8y ago

That depends on the user.

ryan-c 8y ago

It's not possible to make a web-based email client that speaks to the IMAP/SMTP server directly. Only a "native" (electron can do this) client can use those protocols.