Due to work I need to use Microsoft outlook mail on a daily basis. What I would like to know is the privacy and security concerns of various options:

  1. Login and use outlook on a browser for general purposes
  2. Use a tailered third party client from flatpak such as https://flathub.org/en-GB/apps/io.github.mahmoudbahaa.outlook_for_linux
  3. Use thunderbird
  4. Any other possibilities
  • @fluckx
    3•9 months ago

    I used to use evolution. The main reason was that evolution was the only client I found at the time ( except bluemail I think? ) which supported the ActiveSync protocol. IMAP and the like was blocked. They had to allow it specifically in AD so it would work.

    I never really took a liking to evolution personally. Can’t really say why. The outdated UI didn’t help.

    I think Thunderbird might have support for it through a custom plugin which I refused to buy.

    Eventually I went back to the PWA. Since i only checked my emails twice a day and it wasn’t exactly core to my job I stopped caring. The majority of the mails were management patting themselves on the back and look how great we’re doing anyway. At the end of the year you get shafted on bonus and higher targets regardless of everybody doing a “great job”.

    Pardon the rant. The company left me a bit sour.