Re:Is Protonmail logging my email content?
by vasuki on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @05:29AM
(#29550199)
This is definitely not precise. I confirmed that the lookup is also performed by Proton servers for mails sent to third party mail services, not just from third party mail services. Are they also scanned?
> We do NOT have access to encrypted message content, but unencrypted messages sent from external providers to ProtonMail are scanned for Spam and Viruses to pursue the legitimate interest of the protection of our users.
Source IP I got in my test: 185.70.43.80
```
# whois.ripe.net
inetnum: 185.70.40.0 - 185.70.43.255
netname: CH-PROTONMAIL-20140915
mnt-by: protonmail-mnt
org-name: Proton AG
```
From privacy policy https://protonmail.com/privacy-policy
> We do NOT have access to encrypted message content, but unencrypted messages sent from external providers to ProtonMail are scanned for Spam and Viruses to pursue the legitimate interest of the protection of our users.
very disappointing.