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by Sir_Cmpwn 2892 days ago
Even if I concede this to you (and I don't), you've already written an IMAP/SMTP bridge that solves these problems. Open source it and make it available to free users and the problem disappears (well, is reduced. Most non-technical users don't know how to run a daemon after all, and making them put it on their own infrastructure is lame as hell).
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bartbutler 2892 days ago
Because running PGP software and handling key management locally is way easier than double-clicking on an installer? I don't concede that for a second. Remember that the alternative you want is ciphertext directly via IMAP, which is not at all user-friendly, which is exactly why we didn't do it.

As for the bridge, that is exactly what we'd like to do, as I've said before.

And customer support time and developer time devoted to this would cost money and represents an opportunity cost as well and that's a fact, not a point to be conceded.

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Sir_Cmpwn 2892 days ago
I said even if I concede, I didn't expect you to.

And like I've said before, what you'd like to do and what you are doing are different. Nothing stops you from open sourcing it today. Put in comments that the APIs you use are not officially supported if you must. Open source it! It should have been open source a year ago! Open source it!

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auslander 2891 days ago
And you give me all your money. Give me All Your Money!

Some people are just like that :)

Great product, Proton team, thanks.

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