[yura]

I’ve used Protonmail for years, but lately the encryption is making me seriously consider a switch. You can’t use 3rd party email clients, unless you also install Proton Mail Bridge, which is only available for paid users. And the bridge only works for desktop, so you won’t be able to use 3rd party email clients on your phone.

This is an issue not only with Proton Mail, but with other services in their ecosystem too. For example, you also can’t integrate Proton Calendar with the iOS Calendar app, because of the encryption.

And all of this is for no benefit, because your email won’t be fully E2E encrypted unless your recipient is also using Proton Mail. Most of your recipients will be using Gmail or Outlook, so at the end of the day Google/Microsoft will read your emails anyway.

I’m considering switching to Fastmail, Mailbox.org, or Migadu. If you need to send truly private emails, use PGP encryption.

[al_borland]

I have a paid proton account so I can use mail at a domain I when, but I don’t use anything else, and this is why. I don’t want to say encryption is a problem, just that Proton isn’t going to integrate with my phone and computer, and that’s a problem. I don’t mind using the Proton app for mail (I use Apple Mail and Gmail as well), but migrating calendars is a pretty big deal to me, since I only want 1, it’s not something that’s even worth trying out, like I can with email.