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Let me start by saying that I don't think Proton is a bad company in any way, and I have no evidence of any kind of malfeasance, but I still must ask... Do you
by thesuitonym 3y ago
Let me start by saying that I don't think Proton is a bad company in any way, and I have no evidence of any kind of malfeasance, but I still must ask...
Do you have an exit strategy if Proton goes the way of Microsoft or Google? Those two only had apathy and inertia keeping people in their ecosystem, but Proton kind of has you locked in, because you can only use their proprietary apps to access encrypted emails. Yes, I know you can use IMAP, but my understanding is that any email sent via IMAP isn't encrypted, and any encrypted mail can't be downloaded via IMAP. Either way, just because they have IMAP turned on today, doesn't mean they won't turn it off tomorrow in the name of security.
- protonmail 3y agoWe'd like to point out that you can connect a custom domain to a Proton Mail account, which would make you eventual migration easier. Additionally, we also offer a free email export tool: https://proton.me/support/proton-mail-export-tool https://proton.me/support/proton-mail-export-tool. Finally, Proton was created in order to make online privacy available to anyone, so we will always try to maintain interoperability as much as we can.
- moose44 3y agoI'm not very tied to any of my emails. I recently did a painstaking digital purge so, switching everything over would be very easy for me.