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Re:Protonmail was down by gspr on Monday February 01, 2021 @05:30AM (#25987408)
It's still a completely pointless cludge, and another thing that can break. For no reason. No reason at all!

I really wanna like and use Proton. I think some of the people behind it are great. I wanna support Swiss companies (I miss the place dearly). I don't mind that it's a bit more expensive than many competitors. BUT I WANT IMAP ACCESS without some crazy converter stuck in between me and my email.

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Re:Protonmail was down by undertheradar_n on Monday February 01, 2021 @05:54AM (#25987547)
Encrypted emails are not compatible with IMAP. So they need the crazy converter to make it work.
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Re:Protonmail was down by gspr on Monday February 01, 2021 @08:01AM (#25988239)
1) That's patently not true. It's their special flavor of encrypted email that's not compatible with IMAP.

2) I value IMAP far far far more than I value their special flavor of encrypted email. If they'd let me turn the latter off in exchange for IMAP without the crazy converter, I'd have chosen Proton when I was cutting Google out of emails.

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