Comment on Why I ditched Gmail for Proton Mail

• deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You should be aware Tuta won’t let you use a third party client, automatically forward messages, or do a mass export of your email. It’s not impossible to move but they deliberately make it difficult. So does Proton in their own away.

  They’ll say it’s about maintaining the security of your emails and such, but it’s just a vender lock in tactic.

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  • Swarfega@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Proton allows you to export as eml or mbox. Seems fine to me?

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And they support automatic forwarding to external addresses, provided you’re on a premium plan, which you need to be for a custom domain.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dang.

    Some good news though:

    • someone built a workaround for bulk export
    • there’s a GitHub issue for it, which was recently updated to be on the "roadmap"
    • something else from the roadmap was closed recently

    Automatic forwarding isn’t an issue IMO since I can do that at the DNS level for custom domains. However, everyone on my plan at the same domain would need to switch at the same time.

    But definitely something to take into account. Hopefully it’s just the immaturity of the product and will get resolved with time. Proton also didn’t have IMAP when it started, and it has a workable bridge now (so bulk export is an option that way). Proton also supports encrypted email forwarding now (encryption probably only applies to internal to Proton forwards), so hopefully Tuta follows suit.

    Maybe I’ll switch to Proton instead, IDK. My emails aren’t that valuable to me long term, so I’d be fine downloading/forwarding the few I care about manually. My primary goal here is to get off Google, and I’m willing to jump through a few hoops to do so (and Tuta is pretty good and pretty inexpensive). But that may not be true for others.

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