It’s E2EE therefore you can’t just use an IMAP server that works with “plaintext” data.
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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Can’t you just use K-9 mail? Why is there a need for a dedicated Proton mail app
qaz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Email as a protocol doesn’t really support E2EE as a protocol. However, IMAP supports several forms of SSL and SSL is required by most providers.
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
SSL is not E2EE
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
That’s what I said
qaz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes, plain text was more of an analogy
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Proton has pretty poor third party support
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
It’s because of the encryption, any encrypted email provider has this issue, it’s not specific to Proton
sunglocto@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
IMAP only works with paid accounts
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
It only works through the Proton Mail Bridge application, which is only available for desktop. That’s because Proton’s end-to-end encryption makes it impossible to access your emails while they are on Proton’s servers via IMAP. They would need to be decrypted on the server, but that would make the entire encryption pointless. The Proton Mail Bridge connects to the server, downloads the encrypted data, decrypts it locally on your PC and locally exposes an IMAP server, which contains your decrypted messages.