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Re:Proton Technologies awarded €2M from the EU by morrbo on Saturday March 09, 2019 @03:31AM (#19345121)
ProtonMail is fantastic. I'd recommend (and do myself) using it for a small start up. Hopefully this funding will allow development of some of the features which make it effectively impossible to use for an enterprise (or group > 20 people IMO). It's currently missing things such as:

Enforcing 2FA on anyone inside your organization.

Setting company-wide signatures.

Using HTML as your signature.

Setting company-wide/user details (ie. Allowing appending "Regards, %%Position%% %%LandLine%%" on an outgoing email).

Mail-flow rules (though admittedly, this is basically the same as the previous point).

Tagging of external emails ("This email was received outside of the organization at the start/end/subject of an email).

These are a few QOL suggestions i can think of off the top of my head. However, the enforcing 2FA on users, and being able to tag external emails are outright security issues which should genuinely be implemented as ProtonMail is both security and privacy focused. I did raise a ticket with all of this in a few months ago, but hope this gives the devs some visibility so they can use that sweet EU funding to improve on these. These basic features would make a world of difference to all users.

The use of HTML as your signature (last time I checked anyway) is silly, as this actually works absolutely fine. We ended up manually pasting the HTML into the page using right click -> inspect element, and hitting save... this works fine if anyone else is having the same problem.

TL;DR: Highly recommend ProtonMail but only for small orgs at this point.

Re:Proton Technologies awarded €2M from the EU by badpun on Saturday March 09, 2019 @03:53AM (#19345184)
Protonmail Bridge, required for IMAP, is so buggy as to be unusable. This means you’re effectively left with the bare bones web client. This may be ok for lots of people/businesses, but not for others.
Re:Proton Technologies awarded €2M from the EU by desktop-app on Saturday March 09, 2019 @05:31AM (#19345510)
Re:Proton Technologies awarded €2M from the EU by gvand on Saturday March 09, 2019 @05:34AM (#19345524)
Serious question, unusable on which platform?

Yes, sometime it crashes, but is good enough from my point of view, used to be way worse.

Re:Proton Technologies awarded €2M from the EU by badpun on Saturday March 09, 2019 @06:16AM (#19345636)
Windows 10. Esp. after latest update, emails keep disappearing and reappearing in the mailbox. And even before that, the bridge was timeouting all the time.
Re:Proton Technologies awarded €2M from the EU by arosier on Sunday March 10, 2019 @07:15PM (#19355370)
Thank you for the feedback. Bridge is receiving a lot of internal priority right now. If you have time, we’d appreciate your direct feedback: https://protonmail.com/support-form
Re:Proton Technologies awarded €2M from the EU by kingosticks on Saturday March 09, 2019 @03:58AM (#19345203)
But shouldn't enterprises be funding the development of enhancing enterprise-centric features? But anyway, the article talks about the money being earmarked for developing ProtonDrive.