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Secure Email Based in Switzerland
- nimish 10y agoUnless email is E2E encrypted from all the sources I care about like banks and stuff I don't see the point.
- tyingq 10y agoOne downside of protonmail is that they don't provide access via IMAP, so once you migrated it would be hard to back up your emails or leave them for another vendor. They apparently now have a beta of IMAP access though: https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-feedback/suggestions/7180858-imap-smtp-tls-support?tracking_code=017f0a56f118f5c74289c5ba64cb3281 https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-feedback/sugg...
- acqq 10y agoAnd I don't understand how they manage to make it "easy" for the user to make both their "special" emails encrypted by the user and unreadable to their server and at the same time allowing users to send the "normal e-mails" to other e-mail servers/users that have to be unencrypted. Anybody knows? Edit: can fully unencrypted e-mails be sent and received via their services at all? And how did they solve that?
- tyingq 10y agoIt's described here: https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/encrypt-for-outside-users/ https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/encrypt-for-ou... Apparently, you have to have shared a password with the end recipient through some other channel before you send them an email.
- Davide95 10y agoMy question is always the same (as a protonmail user): why don't they open-source their android app? There aren't reasons not to do so. For example I wanted to improve their app adding a feature in the past, but I can't
- sliken 10y agoBecause then you could open a protonmail competitor easier.
- pelasaco 10y agoYou don't require any personal information but they ask for a phone number to validate your account.. so isn't phone number a personal information?
- dogma1138 10y agoWhile they are hosted in Switzerland they are staffed from the US iirc so if you are worried about state survielence don't count on geography to save you.