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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Tutanota. I used to use Proton, but they don’t encrypt folder names, which is a deal breaker. Tutanota does, and they’re also a privacy respecting, reputable, decent service.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is that true? They don't encrypt labels on proton?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Sadly, yes. A Proton team member on Reddit confirmed it a couple years back:

Folder/label names are visible to the server (for filters and other reasons) as are email metadata. Message and attachment contents are encrypted and not visible to the server.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/hxomoy/are_mail_folderstags_encrypted_or_private/fzc6wry/

Do note that this is ONLY true for Mail. Calendar, and Drive does encrypt folders/label names.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Subject lines are also not encrypted, unlike Tutanota.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How would that work? Email doesn't have a subject line encryption standard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They implemented their own way of doing this. They don‘t use PGP. I don‘t know how it exactly works, but it‘s open source, so you can look at it yourself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The problem is it doesn't work unless everyone does it the same way. Pgp isn't perfect but at least its a standard.

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