Due to work I need to use Microsoft outlook mail on a daily basis. What I would like to know is the privacy and security concerns of various options:
- Login and use outlook on a browser for general purposes
- Use a tailered third party client from flatpak such as https://flathub.org/en-GB/apps/io.github.mahmoudbahaa.outlook_for_linux
- Use thunderbird
- Any other possibilities
Use a separate work device for work purposes and let the company worry about the rest of it.
If your browser supports PWAs, I’d reccomend that over the electron app you linked. You’d get better performence, and it would be snappier.
Yup, the web page is good enough. I only use the desktop client on my work computer (macOS) for the meeting notifications, which the webapp also provides (but it needs to be open).
After years of actively making it work in Thunderbird, I ended up using a browser tab. It’s more reliable, gives you access to settings such as filters, and it’s easy to close after work with all the other tabs in my “work” browser.
I’ve been using Thunderbird with the OWL and TBSync plugins for exchange for years with good results. Obviously some things won’t work (teams integration, provisioned signatures, mail merge, etc) but it’s good enough that I only need proper outlook/OWA less than once a month.
Another option is “installing” the webapp as a PWA. I tried that for a bit but found notifications to be unreliable.
I used Davmail which acts as a bridge to access Outlook from Thunderbird. There is a thunderbird plugin, but it was paid so I backed out.
I use Firefox for most purposes, but have chromium on there for anything related to grad school. Which includes, among other things, Office 365 and Outlook Online. On Fedora 38 if it matters.
Used to use Thunderbird with enigmail for PGP back in the day, it was good. The separate browser is fine now, but T bird is a fine option.
Evolution looks and behaves a lot like outlook. works well for me
