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Comment by owaislone | Hacker News Reader

The product looks great. One question: does it sync everything to shortwave servers? If I download the desktop app, will everything still be synced to the servers? I'd be fine with most of my email being copied by a service like this but thinking of emails like OTPs, account resets, bank/credit card and social security authorizations makes me a bit too uncomfortable. I wish this had a denylist of some sort to never some sync mail.

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Good question. Yes, we do sync your mail to our servers. We need to do this to provide many of the features we have.

We are taking security very seriously and are doing everything we can to dot our i's and cross our t's. Our engineering team is ex-Google / ex-Firebase engineers with lots of experience building high security, high reliability data systems at Google.

Just tried it and have a bug report: back button is completely broken. I opened a category/group then openened an email, clicked mouse side button (which is bound to back button of browser) and it took me to a completely random email thread. No matter how many times I try it, it takes me back to the same thread. I never opened the thread before I was taken there by the back button.

Can I request a feature? I'd love Shortwave to ignore a specific folder or label in Gmail. I can then label stuff I deem extra sensitive and it would never leave Gmail. This would give a lot of people peace of mind when trying Shortwave.

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