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1. petcat+9B[view] [source] 2026-01-15 12:29:56
>>keepam+(OP)
> Local and private

> Your agent runs on your machine. We only relay the messages.

How can this be private if this intermediate service is sending and receiving all the emails back and forth

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2. keepam+yN[view] [source] 2026-01-15 13:32:16
>>petcat+9B
Just in that your agent runs on your local machine, has access to your local filesystem, and no code execution happens on our cloud, and that we don't look at or store the emails. Pure relay, so it’s just as private as business collaboration on regular email in that sense.

It's a paid product, you are not the product. We have 0 interest in your email content or data. Only in making it easy for you to run your agents without being stuck on your console.

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3. mzajc+4V[view] [source] 2026-01-15 14:07:53
>>keepam+yN
Are the emails end to end encrypted (PGP or S/MIME where you/your server don't have the keys) or just in transit (TLS)? That would make the difference between "we can't look at your emails" and "we choose not to look at your emails".
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4. bflesc+W41[view] [source] 2026-01-15 14:52:46
>>mzajc+4V
Good to call out use of semi-technical weasel words.

Their privacy policy is far from GDPR compliant. In a legal sense, they do not respect data privacy rights of their customers at all.

https://mailpilot.chat/#/privacy

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5. Nextgr+J71[view] [source] 2026-01-15 15:04:41
>>bflesc+W41
No major tech product is GDPR compliant. Not making a judgement on whether that's right or wrong, just stating facts.
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6. bflesc+J81[view] [source] 2026-01-15 15:09:21
>>Nextgr+J71
> just stating facts

You are confidently incorrect.

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7. Nextgr+Ja1[view] [source] 2026-01-15 15:18:48
>>bflesc+J81
GDPR says that consent for non-essential tracking purposes should be freely given, you can't use dark patterns nor make the "consent" option more prominent than the "decline" option. Similarly, inaction (ignoring the banner) does not count as consent.

Most products fail on that alone, and that's the very basics. But happy to be proven wrong.

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