[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