RE: Any way to keep my non-Google email contacts from Google…

I use K-9 mail ("Fetch mail", get it?), and as far as I know it knows nothing about GMAIL.

But then, I doubt you were talking about Android Phone apps :-)

Google mail ('gmail') now (seems to) refuses to work with Mozilla mail (or whatever its called these days) unless you turn on the 'allow insecure apps' flag, which I'm unwilling to do. So I'd be a bit surprised, if you don't tell Mozilla about gmail, that gmail will know about your Mozilla.

But, I lost my tin hat a while back...


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From: PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Matt Graham
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2018 1:27 PM
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Subject: Re: Any way to keep my non-Google email contacts from Google?

On 2018-09-03 19:25, Victor Odhner wrote:
> So on my old phone, I only synchronized my calendar items with Google.
> I avoided synching everything else, there was no need.
> That was in the not-evil days: now it seems to be sync all or nothing.
>
> Q: IF I’M USING A DIFFERENT MAIL CLIENT FOR NON-GOOGLE EMAIL, WILL A
> SYNC WITH GOOGLE SLURP UP ALL MY CONTACTS ANYWAY?

I think this would depend on the mail client. Which one are you using?
There's also the approach where you back up your contacts in your mail
client, delete them all, sync with evil google, then restore the
backed-up contacts in your client. This is probably too clumsy for
regular use though.

> I’m not about to replace my OS, but just curious:
> Are there versions of Android that don’t feed the Beast?

AOSP? LineageOS? These don't talk to google nearly as much. How
usable they would be depends a lot on whatever it is you want to do with
your phone. It's not immediately obvious whether a phone with LineageOS
on it can be used to make and receive phone calls and SMS messages using
the carrier-given phone#, for instance.

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