95 PRIVACY WARNING: New Microsoft OUTLOOK SENDS YOUR PASSWORDS, mails and other private data to Microsoft. Alternatives: Thunderbird.net and or Mailbox.org (mailbox.org) posted 1 year ago by Francewhoa 1 year ago by Francewhoa +95 / -0 Warning: New Outlook sends passwords, mails and other data to Microsoft | mailbox.org The IT news portal Heise Online warns against using the new free Microsoft Outlook. There is a risk of losing access data to e-mail accounts. 33 comments share 33 comments share save hide report block hide replies
Two options to choose from:
For advanced users, using Thunderbird, you are able, for FREE, to migrate your email storage from Microsoft to Mailbox.org or any other hosting to your liking. If you choose this option, before you start, it suggests doing a backup of all your Outlook.https://kb.mailbox.org/en/business/account-article/do-it-yourself-migration
Alternatively, https://mailbox.org offers a paid, but much easier migration services at https://kb.mailbox.org/en/private/account-article/audriga-your-e-mail-migration-service
I use a ten-year old version of Outlook, everything is local. My last job before retiring was as a security engineer at a hosting services company; I don’t trust the cloud either for hosting or storage.