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    1 year ago

    IMAP supports TLS, what’s Proton’s excuse for enforcing their own delivery protocol?

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      1 year ago

      Proton is end-to-end encrypted - they don’t have the keys themselves. With TLS, encryption is between you and the server, but the information can be decrypted on the server side.

      At least that’s my understanding of it. If you want Proton’s own words, they wrote an explanation on their website. :)