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To lower the friction for new users to take up Parley, it'd be handy to allow the "import" of an existing email account. This has little security benefit, sinc
by premasagar 14y ago
To lower the friction for new users to take up Parley, it'd be handy to allow the "import" of an existing email account.
This has little security benefit, since the emails will exist on other servers already (although when I switch mail services, at least my mail will now be stored encrypted). But it would allow me to just use Parley, including for searching or categorising my old messages. I could then delete my current webmail account and there'd be one less insecure node in the system.
IMAP import would bring in old messages as well as category (label / folder) structure. Perhaps there's even a way to pull in Gmail / Thunnderbird / other message filter rules(?). It's all time saved by not having to set things up again.
- napoleond 14y agoWe've thought about this. I think we'd have to charge an import fee; encrypting GBs of data in small, useful chunks is not cheap. It might be something we offer one day, but probably not from the start (especially since, as you noted, there would be almost no security benefit).