It's a completely viable alternative to Gmail. I've been using it for years and I've never given two seconds of thought to my encryption keys - not important to my personal relationship with ProtonMail. There's nothing about ProtonMail that requires that you be an uber-geek to use it. Actually ProtonMail is fairly unoriginal in its approach to UI. Sorry, for being long, I really hope someone can direct me in the right direction, and maybe someone with the same simple threat model like mine could give me a feedback.īasic answer to your question: ProtonMail is now a full-featured email service that (aside from the encryption technology that you don't really see) works pretty much like other email services, that is, if you are familiar with Gmail or, you will instantly be familiar with ProtonMail. It seems also that encryption is linked somehow to my password, so ProtonMail team can´t decrypt the emails unless they have my password. What I like about ProtonMail is that they have their own iOS App, but I would need to install a bridge to use Thunderbird, and it seems that it causes often problems. The price is also nice (12€ per year is not a big deal). Also it seems that they have the keys to the encrypted emails at their servers, so you have to trust them.

But as an iPhone user, I can´t find any open source email client that I can trust and I will have to relay on Apple own client. What I like about MailBox is that they support almost every client through their standard use of email protocols. but not from a 'casual website purchase' of course). But more like usual use: work application/Banking/Insurences/Online puchases (Transportation/PayPal/Amazon etc. I highly doubt that I will be sending encrypted emails as no contact of mine uses them. And I´m still wondering which service is more suitable for an average person caring about his privacy. I like both so far, but the free versions don´t allow me to test the full potential of the two providers. I´ve been doing some reading and I narrowed my choices between two providers: ProtonMail and MailBox.

This of course mean at least ditch the email services of Google. Lately, I was trying to regain some of my online privacy.

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