Email: Selling inbox information and accessing user data
Users experience severe anger and disappointment upon discovering that the application shares or sells their inbox information to third-party companies. This perceived violation of privacy leads individuals to immediately delete the app, terminate their use of all related applications, and condemn the practice as disgraceful.
6 different people have complained about this since 03 Jul 2018, most recently on 18 Nov 2025.
No new posts for 354 days. This may have been fixed, or people stopped writing about it — the evidence below is from before 18 Nov 2025.
- “Do not even try and contact me again - your scam artists and I’m done with any and all of your apps.”
- “I deleted the app after I read the first paragraph.”
- “Email - Edison Mail — Horrible Privacy Laws.”
6 people in 6 posts across 1 source · 0 in the last 30 days, 0 in the 30 before
The pain
shares of 6 peopleWhat goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 6 people using Email - Edison Mail
- What goes wrong
- Concerns regarding data privacy and access6 people · 100%
- Since
- 03 Jul 2018 → 18 Nov 2025
Is this a startup idea?
Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use — the fix belongs first to that provider.
- Complaints are about
- Email - Edison Mail
- Looking for something else
- 0% want an alternative · 0% ask the provider for a feature
- What the numbers say
- Almost nobody is looking for a different product — people want this provider to fix it, not a new option.
The pain — what people say
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What people were doing
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- Complaint6100%
Sources
6 signals · 1 sources
Evidence
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…about up front as I absolutely would not have consented had I known. I feel really quite angry about this.
…e and I thought that was the end of my relationship with EdisonMail. I was totally wrong! During a random audit of sign-in logs, I have found EdisonMail servers have been accessing the test account in Exchange online constantly, even after the app was removed. Therefore, I believe EdisonMail servers act as your proxy…
…L TO DECIDE WHAT YOUR GOING TO SELL? Bit of a double standard there. Do not even try and contact me again - your scam artists and I’m done with any and all of your apps.
…Mail — Privacy Read very carefully the rights to access mail data. I deleted the app after I read the first paragraph. This was what put me off.... Edison accesses and processes email messages in any email accounts you have connected and data collected from other internet accounts you connect. By linking our Services…
Email - Edison Mail — Horrible Privacy Laws They can read your emails and keep them on their servers. I would rather switch to a client that respects privacy.
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Why did it move?
Score 26.3 → 23.5 · 01 Nov 2026, 13:00 → 14:15 UTC
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Questions about this idea
- Is Selling inbox information and accessing user data a startup idea?
- Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use, and the fix belongs first to that provider. The page shows what is frustrating users and how badly — not an open market to start a company in.
- How many people have this problem?
- 6 different people described it independently, in 6 mentions, the earliest from 03 Jul 2018 and the most recent from 18 Nov 2025. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
- Is this problem getting worse?
- Status: quiet — no new posts in the last 60 days. 0 people raised it in the last 30 days and 0 in the 30 days before; the status compares its share of everything collected from the same source, so collecting more or less cannot create a trend.
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