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Is there are GDPR-compliant Data Processing Agreement available for Thunderbird?

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I'm trying to locate a GDPR-compliant Data Processing Agreement for Thunderbird, but it appears that there aren't any. All the email-addresses regarding legal matters do not work (privacy & legal-notices@), therefore I'm trying the support forum.

For now, the privacy policy is not clear enough on what data is collected and which third parties get access to which personal data. This is quite essential to know before using Thunderbird for businesses.

Hopefully anyone can help me out or send me in the right direction, maybe I'm missing something here.

Thanks,

Jeroen

I'm trying to locate a GDPR-compliant Data Processing Agreement for Thunderbird, but it appears that there aren't any. All the email-addresses regarding legal matters do not work (privacy & legal-notices@), therefore I'm trying the support forum. For now, the privacy policy is not clear enough on what data is collected and which third parties get access to which personal data. This is quite essential to know before using Thunderbird for businesses. Hopefully anyone can help me out or send me in the right direction, maybe I'm missing something here. Thanks, Jeroen

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Thunderbird is an email client program installed on your computer. Each computer should have 'User Accounts' accessed by password. Each user of the computer should have their own 'User Account'. Thunderbird profiles are stored within each 'User Account'. So access to viewing emails would require access the User Account or user would need to have specfic admin rights to access everything.

Profiles can store any number of mail accounts. A mail account is an email address.

Thunderbird program is not a server. Thunderbird allows the creation of mail accounts for existing email addresses, so it can connect to the various servers that store emails and emails can be downloaded and viewed in one place within Thunderbird. It means you do not need to access the webmail account via a browser in order to see emails.

Email receiving/sending protocols pop imap and smtp. Connection Security and Authentication methods.

Emails can be encrypted.

Privacy and security Settings:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/configuration-options-accounts

If you allow it, thunderbird will collect data in the event of a 'crash'. This data does not include 'personal' data. It does include the OS and any extensions in use and what modules were involved in the crash.