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by aquatica 724 days ago
> However, the mailbox as a whole is encrypted at rest

The server still receives from other servers and from the client (if the email is not going to a proton account) the plain text, so nothing prevents them from making a copy.

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email is not Signal, and Proton cannot magically turn on encryption for every sender in the world.
how other providers (gmail) work in this case?..