Mailspring: A fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original authors

Re:Mailspring: A fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original a... by bengotow on Friday October 06, 2017 @01:50AM (#15414707)

Hey folks! Just to be clear, Mailspring does /not/ send your email credentials to the cloud - all the mail sync is done locally, and your passwords are stored in your system keychain / keyring. I spent a good chunk of time re-implementing things like snooze and send later to work without a backend server.

That's actually mentioned a few sentences before the quote above in that GitHub issue ;-) The Mailspring ID stores metadata for things like read receipts and link tracking, but that's pretty much it!

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Re:Mailspring: A fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original a... by _kwmj on Friday October 06, 2017 @04:01AM (#15415136)

Thanks for replying here.

My bad. I somehow missed it.

Since you are here:

- What if I am sending an email to a person who doesn’t use Mailspring? Can the tracking still be achieved? I am don’t know the technical details of how email works but I believe it can’t be done unless the mail client adds something to the mail being sent. Right? So how does it work with Mailspring IDs?

- Can I opt to not track my mails/activities and not be tracked too?

- What all the meta data leavea my local system and goes to Mailspring? Is there a complete list somewhere? Also how are they stored on your serves?

Apologies again for posting incorrect info about your OSS.

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