[timmins]

This has been a key feature in my decision to settle on a primary email provider. With ProtonMail and Tutanota without a true suite of personal organization, I settled on FastMail with the leery eye that it may includes some compromises on privacy. ProtonMail is soon to be releasing their calendar product, though their pricing is a few times more than Tutanota.

Edit: This might be against protocol (I'll delete if so) but I did some further digging

- Why is Protonmail better than Tutanota : https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/b84kd3/why_is_p...

- And, why is Tutanota better than Protonmail: https://www.reddit.com/r/tutanota/comments/b82a05/why_is_tut...

Very interesting.

[hjek]

Neither Tutanota nor Protonmail provide IMAP.

Yea, yea, I know: Protonmail lets you if you pay for this proprietary client app that you then have to install; but come on, it's 2019, even Hotmail provides IMAP.

For some people it's actually useful to have offline access to email and, you know, being able to search their email content.

[NikolaeVarius]

I mean, the core issue is that IMAP was never really intended to be used in the way that encrypted email works right?

[hjek]

> I mean, the core issue is that IMAP was never really intended to be used in the way that encrypted email works right?

Well, why is Protonmail able to provide IMAP then? (although restricted to paying customers, using proprietary software)[0]

[0]: https://protonmail.com/bridge/

[NikolaeVarius]

Because they're using a piece of software to bolt stuff on top of IMAP because IMAP by itself was never intended to do what their software is doing