The features discussed will help your users in the immediately as they are industry RFCs that many email providers (including non-privacy ones implement).
On the current criteria we do have core requirements, that being E2EE and do evaluate other such things such as marketing used surrounding a product.
If we did add Skiff Mail, it would be one of the weakest recommendations when compared to the others listed. That would not be fair to the others already listed.
That may be the case, however this evaluation was for listing in the email section.
There are certain expectations for email, these are that not collaborated on (unless you have shared inbox functionality). Once an email is sent it is not expected to change. This is vastly different from a collaboration office suite use case. They are complimentary tools to each other and they have their different roles.
What youâve suggested, (paraphrasing), âjust send a link to an encrypted documentâ, would be like me having explain to a lawyer that he âdoesnât want emailâ and he should just talk in a âonline office suiteâ. They would not be happy with that solution.
The issue still remains that people will use your service and be under the illusion that emails that sent to remote providers are E2EE. That is a big problem and one you still need to address.
Even if you do not have a technical solution to that problem, you need to be honest about it to your customers. Accepting limitations of a product and informing users about that is something we hold in high regard. After all their safety should be first priority.
The popularity of your product is not something we evaluate, and it doesnât concern us in our evaluation.
Our priority is to evaluate products and inform our readers about that product and what our experience consisted of. It is one of the reasons we do not accept money from any of the products listed, unlike some other websites.
Our site has always been community focused, factual, in evaluations.
The things I mentioned in my review werenât necessarily blockers to being added. They were observations I made and I wanted share with the community.
The criteria is very much a minimum bar used to filter out products which are not âup there with the othersâ.
We are evaluating you on is the lack of export functionality.
This is important that customers and their data are not locked up in a service that they cannot move away from should they want to, or need to. I acknowledge that you say this feature is coming.
The other things I mentioned (filters, nested folders etc) are observations I made while testing the product. These things are common enough and its important users know what they are getting into before they use your product, as they may rely on these things for their workflow.
Password protected emails are important. A common usecase has been to share a âpasswordâ during a phone call or an in-person meeting. Then the sender will supply the document required to their customer or contact.
The extra functionality such as collaboration is not always needed when sending a sensitive document. In my consulting, my clients regularly want to send privileged legal documents or medical reports.