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by iaskwhy 4691 days ago
I was thinking that using webmail would defeat the purpose of really private email.
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Not if you access it via https.
It's still showing not encrypted on the screen which allows all sort of possibilities when done on a browser. For example, let's say you're using Chrome, hard to make sure page contents are not being used somehow.
The same applies to any other email client; it has your data unencrypted, so if you can't trust it, you're screwed.
That's why I assumed people that actually care about privacy use a desktop software, open source and with IMAP, so there wouldn't be no huge loss.
a desktop software, open source and with IMAP

Which will still see your data unencrypted. And there are open-source browsers too.

In any case, as I said several posts ago, a number of Lavabit customers were complaining about having lost their stored emails; if they were using a desktop email client with IMAP, that wouldn't be the case.