Hey team
Just want to check my understanding and the pros and cons before switching to one of the two!
As I understand it, with Proton everything in your mailbox is encrypted such that they couldn’t read it even if they wanted to. With Mailbox, that’s only the case if you upload a private key and password protect it with Guard (or you could use Mailvelope but Guard is perhaps more straightforward if you had log into a browser on another device?) Then you’d use Thunderbird, FairEmail etc with a PGP to unencrypt on those devices
That being the set up, how do both compare in terms of search? If you wanted to search all your emails for something within the body of those emails, which would fare better with a large mailbox?
The main con of Proton (from trying it out lately) is the Android App. It feels incredibly mickey-mouse, limited and slow to load compared to eg. FairEmail which I’ve been using for a couple of months with other accounts - I like how customisable it is eg that I could have certain senders whose emails load remote content/images, while not loading by default; and being able to read emails as very no-frills, unformatted text looks much better to me.
But that’s probably a trivial concern compared to the real unknown for me which is deliverability. I’m primarily looking to move personal emails across, but ideally I could also move across my small-business (sole-trader) email accounts too. But I’d only do that if I had no concerns about deliverability - if there’s any risk that by switching, an email that would previously have gone to a client’s inbox ends up in their junk folder, that becomes a loss of income that makes the whole thing not worth it. My perception is that Proton may be the safer bet in that sense, but is that unfair?
Thoughts appreciated!