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>If you're really keen on using your favorite IMAP client, pay for premium and use their bridge No, that's absolute bullshit. Paying to export your own data fr
by Sir_Cmpwn 8y ago
>If you're really keen on using your favorite IMAP client, pay for premium and use their bridge
No, that's absolute bullshit. Paying to export your own data from a service is nuts. Not implementing features which have been expected from every mail server for the past 20 years is nuts. This behavior is inexcusable.
>They need your private key to decrypt your emails server-side
No, they don't, they can just send you PGP encrypted emails over IMAP and you can decrypt them client-side. This is how it works for everyone else.
- cube2222 8y agoThey're not a charity. If that's what they need to build a sustainable business, I'm happy to pay them, if they deliver.
- Sir_Cmpwn 8y agoIf paying them for your own data is your cup of tea, then you might be interested in this bridge I have for sale.
- cube2222 8y agoYou do realize this is there to amortize the free actual service usage?
- Sir_Cmpwn 8y agoI understand that paid users subsidize free users, and having paid-exclusive features incentivizes people to pay for their accounts. That doesn't make it acceptable to lock down something as fundamental as IMAP and SMTP access, which is freaking nuts.
- cube2222 8y agoYou speak like IMAP is something as fundamental as water, it's not, it's just a protocol. And the bridge also isn't really useful on mobile, so for most of their users, it's not useful. (People using desktop email clients are a minority)
- Sir_Cmpwn 8y agoIMAP is fundamental to email. And you make a good point, the bridge really isn't enough.
- cube2222 8y agoNo, it may be philosophically, but in practice it's not. It may have been some time ago. Now, the huge majority uses 1. Gmail with the corresponding webapps 2. MS exchange protocol. The only thing really fundamental to email is SMTP.