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Re:ProtonMail includes Google Recaptcha for login by fnord77 on Saturday May 29, 2021 @01:40PM (#27326880)
aren't all messages encrypted on the server? that would make search difficult because no server process could read them. all your emails would have to be pulled into the client for decryption first.
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Re:ProtonMail includes Google Recaptcha for login by navanchauhan on Saturday May 29, 2021 @02:09PM (#27327072)
Not really, it depends on each service provider.

You can imagine each user as a folder in the /var/mail directory, it depends on your implementation to encrypt the folder or not. Gmail encrypts all in-transit e-mails but I cannot find a reference for encrypting on their servers

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Re:ProtonMail includes Google Recaptcha for login by brundolf on Saturday May 29, 2021 @02:35PM (#27327273)
Their point is that ProtonMail specifically does encrypt emails on the server. That's their headlining feature. Only clients are supposed to be able to decrypt them.
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Re:ProtonMail includes Google Recaptcha for login by navanchauhan on Saturday May 29, 2021 @02:43PM (#27327340)
Oh, my bad.

I thought when they were referring to the server, it was email servers in general.

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