Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail

Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail by seveneightn9ne on Monday October 23, 2017 @11:59AM (#15534137)

You can totally search email contents with ProtonMail -- it just does it clientside. I just tested with my 125MB of emails and it was fast (under 1s) but maybe if you have more emails it could be slower.

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Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail by reacharavindh on Monday October 23, 2017 @02:03PM (#15535384)

Have you tried searching for a keyword that is only in the content of the email and NOT on the subject? I tried even now. It doesn’t work for me.

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Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail by maxk42 on Monday October 23, 2017 @02:22PM (#15535560)

I have: It works.

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Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail by bhassel on Monday October 23, 2017 @04:42PM (#15536785)

I'm curious how? This FAQ page on their site claims you cannot search email contents, although they plan to support that in their upcoming Protonmail Bridge (which works with a desktop client to search locally): https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/search/

That is what I'd expect, since obviously they cannot build a search index over text they cannot read. Transferring the entire contents of your emails to your web browser to search locally would be slow and impractical on anything but a very fast connection.

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