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by tragictrash 1486 days ago
Actually, every inbound email is encrypted at storage with your public key. Still can be ready on the way in, but once it's stored, it's encrypted. Much better than other providers imo.
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And all those emails are probably also sitting on google/microsoft server.

Electronic two party communication is inherently insecure - you can encrypt in transit, at rest, military grade, quantum proof - but if the other party gets to do whatever they want with it. Print it, forward it, save it etc.