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The webapp can send your data wherever once it has the data, chrome won't log http requests if they were made server to server etc

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A native application can do that too.

Isn't it the case for any app?

The logic is a native app can make a direct IMAP connection to the mail server and you can check it is doing so where as a web app has to send the login details to a server which does IMAP for the client and you can not see this last part.

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