If only he made that much effort to get Chromium to fix the issue. The source of the problem is with a dependency of the email clients, not the email clients themselves.
He is bothering small free software projects so that those small free software projects ask Chromium to fix the issue.
Evolution is the only client on Linux (that I’m aware of) that fully supports Microsoft exchange and Google out of the box without any plugins. I used thunderbird for a long time, however I got frustrated so many times after things broke after every update because essential plugins stopped working. Yes, you may say Evolution UI is old, but the software is rock solid and softwares in general are more than their GUI. It’s good to bring awareness about the tracking but I’m not so bothered by it, as its hard to find software that doesn’t track you these days
I wasn't aware of Balsa or Geary, but it's interesting to note that the author has mentioned that they are affected by GNOME's culture. I also have found the GNOME devs to have issues with admitting any fault at all, security or otherwise, but I wasn't aware of them being linked to any email clients other than Evolution - which I have been using.
What's a good app for Exchange on Linux? I could use the web app, which my company has available, but I do appreciate having a dedicated email client sometimes, particularly for OS notifications (which will work without having the browser open).
If the library they depend on isnt getting fixed then it needs to be worked around (doable with HTML sanitisation) or use another library that's usable for the purpose of an email client.
If neither of those are doable, the software needs a warning that it's vulnerable to a such a terrible privacy exploit. People over however many years this has been possible deserve to know that their email client has been allowing any random person in the internet to easily get their IP address or know they're on their computer.
If you can't do this why are you maintaining software, it's unmaintained at that point. The replies to the bug report are just terrible attitude even if factually correct.
So much text instead of mentioning the WebKitGtk doesn't provides that feature (currently). WebKitGtk is a good engine but somebody should to address that issue. Feels like a developer had only Epiphany as web-browser in consideration and forgot, that mail-clients prefer to not load images.
Evolution is a good mail client in general.
PS: Prefer always text-mail. When sending. When receiving.
What's all this controversy with GNOME? I must be missing something. Isn't it perfectly reasonable to say that some security issue in a dependency (which is maintained and open and funded, like WebKit or Linux) is not the fault of someone down the line to fix?
I can't imagine someone reporting a bug to one of my repos about some race condition in the kernel. Why the hell are you bothering me with that? Tell the LKML.
That's not to say I'm not sympathetic, it's just, like, what do you expect me to do?
One the one hand: Yes, if it's not your code then it's not exactly your responsibility to fix.
On the other hand: As a user, the takeaway isn't "well that's not their fault", the takeaway is "if I use this software, then I am vulnerable to this problem". The question of who's responsible or where the fault lies is irrelevant.
What I fails to understand it's why no one seems to offer the most logic MUE which is essentially offering the full download/sync of all accounts maildirs, like with OfflineIMAP, than offer powerful local indexing like notmuch/mu with a pre-made UI nice for end users.
Slogan: own your own messages, own a local GMail. We have all the code except the UI
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[ 4.2 ms ] story [ 22.9 ms ] threadHe is bothering small free software projects so that those small free software projects ask Chromium to fix the issue.
What's a good app for Exchange on Linux? I could use the web app, which my company has available, but I do appreciate having a dedicated email client sometimes, particularly for OS notifications (which will work without having the browser open).
If neither of those are doable, the software needs a warning that it's vulnerable to a such a terrible privacy exploit. People over however many years this has been possible deserve to know that their email client has been allowing any random person in the internet to easily get their IP address or know they're on their computer.
If you can't do this why are you maintaining software, it's unmaintained at that point. The replies to the bug report are just terrible attitude even if factually correct.
Evolution is a good mail client in general.
PS: Prefer always text-mail. When sending. When receiving.
I can't imagine someone reporting a bug to one of my repos about some race condition in the kernel. Why the hell are you bothering me with that? Tell the LKML.
That's not to say I'm not sympathetic, it's just, like, what do you expect me to do?
On the other hand: As a user, the takeaway isn't "well that's not their fault", the takeaway is "if I use this software, then I am vulnerable to this problem". The question of who's responsible or where the fault lies is irrelevant.
Slogan: own your own messages, own a local GMail. We have all the code except the UI