A long screed but has this jackhole who writes so unprofessionally even reached out to Mullvad for comment or explanation? Because that's usually what respectable journalistic outfits do.

They don't post some screenshots, make inferences without knowing all of Mullvad's backend, and say "what we are saying is definitely true and there's no possible way we could technically be wrong."

I can think of several ways they could be wrong, it would have been helpful to have any statement from Mullvad, because they might have a technical reason for this (up to and including making sure their emails aren't disappeared as spam, because running your own email server sucks.).

Anyway, pretty unprofessional and makes me pretty skeptical of the claims until more solid evidence than a screenshot surface.

For example, who is to say that Mullvad hasn't set up their own client side encryption keys? This is an option Google offers for use with business accounts. This effectively means Google doesn't have your keys nor can read your emails.

https://support.google.com/a/answer/10741897?hl=en

It took me five seconds of searching to find this. Did the guy who wrote this article even try?