Protonmail

Is the Android Protonmail app on F-Droid safe? Protonmail is not available on F-Droid and I would like to get it on F-Droid to receive automated updates.

Hey all, hoping some more experienced Proton users might be able to help me out here.

Earlier this week I began the process of switching from Gmail to Proton. I imported the last few months of Gmail messages, set Gmail to forward to Proton for the interim before I can get all my other accounts switched away from that Gmail, and installed the Android proton mail app.

I'm having the following issues:

• Proton mail, regardless of if I'm in browser or mobile app, keeps reappearing emails that I delete or mark as spam. I'll delete them, then check my inbox again later and there they are again, unread in my inbox. It'll take 6 or 7 attempts sometimes before an email actually stays deleted.

-the Android app is sucking crazy amounts of battery. It's not like I receive an insane amount of daily messages, but yesterday Proton mail sucked 40% of my battery. That's from mostly idle use and deleting a handful of emails. That's it. It seems to be pulling an insane amount of juice in the background.

Anyone know how I can resolve these problems? I want to use proton for their focus on privacy and encryption, but both these issues are deal breakers for me if I can't resolve them.

Thanks in advance!

There is now an official Protonmail Community at !protonprivacy@lemmy.world

Transitioning to PM (and generally speaking, to Proton For Everything) from Gmail, I was following the manual when I realised that PM wanted to replace my privately-owned, with mailbox service included, mail address.

What I've been doing for 15 years was hide a gmail adress behind my own domain name (quality of apps, quantity of storage, general user friendliness...); people would still see me as me@me.me, but I had the convenience of that google service while writing"as" me@me.

It also offered me a layer of safety, since downtime does happen, and hopping to the poor roundcube webmail interface of my hosting company allowed me to keep business as usual. Believe it or not, google has failed more often than that regional service provider. lol.

Now to the question: Am I right to understand PM will dutifully catch all emails to me@me.me, the DNS settings will kill my old-school IMAP mailbox to push them towards me@proton.me, and I will have to commit to trust Proton 99.95% (their current SLA for customers like me)?

Will I loose that last line of defense, Roundcube Webmail straight from my private provider?

Thanks is advance. For obvious reasons, I'm not on twitter, reddit & all that.

In other words, a community where proton does official announcements, such as downtime for maintenance, new services and so on?

I know of another community too !protonprivacy

I don't know if they are 'official' neither and asked them the same thing.

No judgements, just wanted to know the status, so to speak

Proton Pass is out of beta

Anyone else get it?

Appears to work well so far. It uploaded four 20GB veracrypt volumes for me and synced down ~100GB of files I had on Drive.

I'm not thrilled with the fact that I couldn't select what would be synced down, but I suppose that feature may come at a later date.

Looking for a nice wallpaper for your desktop?

Protonmail has quite a few available on their site, plus some other graphics and icons

Headers:

• 1. Protonmail Behaves like a CIA/NSA “Honeypot”
• 2. Protonmail Does Not Provide “End to End Encryption”
• 3. Protonmail’s Was Created Under CIA/NSA Oversight
• 4. Protonmail is Part Owned by CRV and the Swiss Government
• 5. CRV, In-Q-Tel & the CIA
• 6. Protonmail Follows CIA Email format & Metadata Requirements
• 7. Swiss MLAT Law Could Give the NSA Full Access
• 8. Protonmail Uses Radware for DNS/DDOS Protection
• 9. Protonmail Developers Do Not Use Protonmail
• 10. Protonmail engages in illegal cyberwarfare
• 11. Protonmail has a history of Dishonesty.

I like to archive important emails offline. Is there a way to export the data from ProtonMail?

CTemplar. A new competitor to Protonmail?

Finally got around to installing Protonmail Bridge and setting it up to work with Geary on Ubuntu...

Took me a little while to figure out that the bridge uses a custom password.. (the setup instructions didn't mention that)