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> the total lack of useful search sent me back to big G. Just how bad is the search? Google's Gmail search is hot garbage. I have 1 starred email with the sub
by cptskippy 5y ago
> the total lack of useful search sent me back to big G.
Just how bad is the search? Google's Gmail search is hot garbage.
I have 1 starred email with the subject "benefits info" that contains some info I reference semi regularly. I can't search and find it, even if I copy the subject and paste it into search.
My partner has similar issues, the search is mostly useless.
* Clarification: it's not that my search results are polluted other emails, that specific email does not show up at all in the results.
- CodeGlitch 5y agoSince the data is encrypted at rest, then search within Proton is basically nerfed. It does work, but it's slow as I imagine it's having to download each email to search within it locally. Not sure if there's a good solution for that problem. I still use Proton because I value my privacy and can live with slow searches.
- contravariant 5y agoYou just need to encrypt the search index alongside the emails. There are databases that have solved this problem. The hacker's solution would be to put sqlite inside a truecrypt volume I suppose. Edit: mount it over sshfs if you need end-to-end encryption. And pray that truecrypt and sqlite have optimized their read/write operations well enough.