![]() ![]() The Gmail app on your phone notifies you that you have a new message.The Gmail app on your phone fetches it.The Gmail mail server sends a "push notification" to your phone, waking it up and alerting it that you have new email.Mail.app gives you some sort of notification that you have a new message.Mail.app periodically checks your email account to see if you have new mail, then fetches it.With that out of the way, here's how the process of receiving an email works on these clients: A third-party app, then, is one made by someone other than the company who made your computer's operating system or your email service. If you don't trust the Gmail app, you shouldn't trust the Gmail service either. ![]() That is, if you don't trust Mail.app with your email, you probably wouldn't be using a Mac or iPhone in the first place. These are a direct link between your computer and your email service, and are widely regarded as trustworthy and safe to use. When I refer to a first-party mail client, I mean Apple's own Mail.app, or the app that an email service company made to support their own system (such as Google's Gmail app). ![]() My problem with their product isn't because I don't trust them, but because I have to trust them, and unnecessarily. Now, to be clear, I think Readdle is a good, competent, well-meaning company and that Spark is a nice app. From an information security, privacy, or legal perspective, many are horrible.įor example, Readdle makes a popular email client, Spark. From an end user perspective, many of them are amazing and useful. There are a lot of neat third-party email applications available for Mac and iOS. ![]()
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