Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email?

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transcriptase•32 minutes ago

Fun activity: install glasswire on windows for a day or 2, set it to prompt you before any connection is allowed, and watch as about 500 different windows components attempt connections with Microsoft as a result of any and every action. And how many onedrive exes randomly fire off throughout the day despite having never once used it. And how onedrive changes its version number every day when it realizes it can’t connect.

bantunes•43 minutes ago

I assume for the same reason the OS pings Cupertino when you run a binary - surveillance, masquerading as protection.

SoftTalker•42 minutes ago

Yes, the safe assumption is that Apple reads all your mail. Not that any other provider is better---most are probably worse.

tjoff•20 minutes ago

"Not that any other provider is better"

Is that your pretend justification for buying apple?

bantunes•38 minutes ago

I don't think they read all of it. Probably just metadata. But would be good to know what's being sent.

speak_plainly•23 minutes ago

Probably Handoff and cross-device application state syncing.

zer0zzz•12 minutes ago

Everyone wearing their tinfoil hat while using Gmail and drive for everything

cynicalsecurity•1 minute ago

Gmail doesn't pretend to be private.

Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email?

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