• Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    1 day ago

    There is no way to retrieve your mail using IMAP on a regular client if they’re encrypted on the server.

    That is probably why you can’t retrieve your emails using IMAP from a regular client.

    And Gmail can retrieve your mails from proton using IMAP. It’s even in their own (proton’s) documentation.

    I don’t think it can. Where in the documentation did you find that?

    • cley_faye@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      21 hours ago
      And Gmail can retrieve your mails from proton using IMAP. It’s even in their own (proton’s) documentation.
      

      I don’t think it can. Where in the documentation did you find that?

      An online search brought me here : https://www.getmailbird.com/setup/en/access-protonmail-com-via-imap-smtp which did looks like a documentation page about how to do exactly that. Obviously, it has nothing to do with them, and the actual details makes no sense the lower you get in the page. I’ve been had :)

      They still can see most mails transit from their service in plaintext in both directions, though, which remain a privacy issue, but it has more to do with email protocols than anything.

      • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        17 hours ago

        You’re right that they can see the emails in transit if you’re not using encryption, but they never said they can’t. They are as secure as they can possibly be, and are honest about what’s secure and what’s not. I would leave Protonmail at the first sniff of trouble but I just haven’t seen anything that concerning.