Comment by NoboruWataya

Comment by NoboruWataya 21 hours ago

I have been using mailbox.org for a few years and no complaints. I don't think the web UI is amazing but I use it via Thunderbird so it doesn't affect me.

If you use your own email client and your own domain name, you don't really need to worry about UI with email providers at all (as long as your provider supports those features). And your own domain name makes it easy to move around in future if you need to.

I don't really have any plans to move away from mailbox.org, though I just saw the post about Thunderbird offering an email service in the future. That might actually prompt me to move as I'd like to support the makers of a FOSS email client I've been happily using for years.

guerrilla 21 hours ago

It doesn't sound like they do on-disk encryption like ProtonMail. Is that right?

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gruez 21 hours ago

You mean e2e? on-disk encryption (ie. "encryption at rest") is basically used by everyone, including gmail and outlook.

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- guerrilla 21 hours ago
  
  You can tell how well I've researched this ;) but yes.
  
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  burnte 17 hours ago
  
  Indeed. The HTTPS connection is enecrypted, and they TRY to use TLS first when delivering mail, but it will fall back to cleartext easily if the other end doesn't support TLS.
  
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giuliomagnifico 21 hours ago

Mailbox doesn’t support it, but on mailbox you can use your IMAP app with Proton not.
And on mailbox you can easily send and receive PGP encrypted mail on mailbox.org. They provide a page for key import, allowing you to send encrypted emails like regular mail when needed.
It’s your choice, if you always want to use proton mail app everywhere you can use proton.

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- UK-AL an hour ago
  
  I've set the bridge as background Daemon so I barely know it's there.
  
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- guerrilla 21 hours ago
  
  I use IMAP with Proton. Thunderbird is my main mail client. You just need to install the bridge.
  
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  giuliomagnifico 19 hours ago
  
  Yes but only if you install the bridge as I wrote in my blog post, and on iOS iPadOS? You can’t use Apple Mail app.
  
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