Personal Domain Name Use On Protonmail'S Email System
Personal Domain Name Use On Protonmail'S Email System
Custom Domains were released in version 3.1. You can add your domain by upgrading your account: https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/paid-plans/ You can read more in this blog post: https://protonmail.com/blog/we-have-launched-support-for-custom-domains-and-paid-accounts/
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Anonymous commented
..but when it comes to turning it into a business creating a business model out of the service..never be greedy for greed can be felt by users and greed kills business and reputation. the reason we all trust gmail is that google is so generous.
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Anonymous commented
We are willing to pay for such added features but make sure the basic features remain free like Gmail as for the free you can sustain it with non intrusive advertising like the one found in Gmail.
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Anonymous commented
ICANN has released hundreds of new domain name TLDs. Watch out for the .mail and .email tld coming soon. maybe you can use proton.mail to make it shorter.
and why not add a feature where we can use our own domain names we already own like the one done in Google Apps where we can use our own domain in Gmail service such as that I can have my own email in the format: myname@myowndomain.com
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Jack Biggs commented
Is there any way we can get an update or a specific date for when this will be available? From twitter it says that support for custom domains would be released by the end of last year (posted on 20 May 2014), but we haven't heard anything since!
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Kim Nielsen commented
I second that. Make support for personal domains. The lag of this keeps me from using protonmail.
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JJ commented
Another voice says this is a non-starter. As soon as (if ever) protonmail supports personal domains, I will gladly become a paying customer.
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Stijn commented
Can't wait for this.
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nameless-h commented
It would be nice to have something like Google's "account aliases" system ( gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/send-mail-from-another-address-without.html?m=1 )
that approach would allow me to both send messages from my old legacy addresses (of which I have 4 ! ) and receive stuff from them and store it reasonably securely in my Protonmail account
As AP correctly points out, this would not constitute an encrypted exchange (since messages retrieved via POP from legacy addreses and messages sent via vanilla SMTP from legacy addresses are obviously insecure), but that appears to be an acceptable trade-of (I will just keep an eye on making sure I don't send anything secure-ish through the "legacy" aliases)
It will also provide a very good bulwark against "small brother" attacks along the lines of what was suffered by Russian opposition leaders ( www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/26/russian-opposition-leaders-twitter-gets-hacked/ ).
It works as follows:
1) I set up an inconspicuous email in some back of the woods email hosting, say lamebox@yahoo.com
2) I connect it to my Protonmail, google-alias style (Protonmail can now automatically and independently fetch stuff from lamebox@yahoo.com via POP and encrypt it for storage the same way as if it was an incoming email from an insecure mail service. Protonmail can also send mails as if it was lamebox@yahoo.com if I tell it to explicitly when composing an imail inside Protonmail GUI)
3) I converse with untrustworthy individuals via the lamebox@yahoo.com address using Protonmail as a secure backend.
The untrustworthy people will be able to determine that my "real deal" stuff is Protonmail by inspecting the headers if it is done exactly the way google does it, but if I understand correctly there won't be an immediately apparent "leak" if Protonmail does a better job of pretending to be a generic SMTP client for the purpose of this excercise.
HOWEVER even if they do learn about my Protonmail "back end", rhey won't be able to EVEN TRY to hack into it since they have no idea what my protonmail credentials are (unless it's easily guessable from my name and whatnot).
If some party breaks into my "decoy" lamebox@yahoo.com address, they don't get access to the entire history of messages (because Protonmail was regularly fetching messages from there via POP and deleting old ones) and they can't learn what my protonmail credentails are (it's just a decoy and OF COURSE isn't used as recovery address for protonmail).
Highly sensitive discussions with trusted individuals should, of course, be strictly protonmail-to-protonmail (ideally, a simple option that prevents sending mail to protonmail recepients through a SMTP-alias should be implemented to allow users to safeguard themselves against accidental leaks)
So yeah, it would be a useful feature.
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Anonymous commented
Features:
+ Add my own domain (ex. mydomain.com)
+ Create aliases like: username@mydomain.com, alias@mydomain.com etc.
+ Simple and automate aliases like: username+anystring@ -- it always goes to username@
This is also very good privacy feature. For example I always set up new account using my initials+service-name, ex: ab+amazon@mydomain.com (than you can figure out who trade your email address). -
Flip commented
This is what is stopping me flipping over to Proton.
Would be my top requet :)
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Chuck commented
I believe this request is very similar to one I had already opened back on March 9th under "Ability to set the Reply To email address from an approved list." I say similar because like drjrm commented this request's description is some-what vague, but apparently so is my request as it has received way less traction (OK, none) than this request. Assuming this request will continue to get votes, I'll add the description from my request below and then probably delete it. (Plus that will free up 3 of my votes which I can then use on other requests!)
My family uses vanity email addresses. Our domain provider allows each vanity address to be forwarded to another email address (i.e., email provider like yahoo, gmail, Xfinity, att, etc.) under the covers. If a family member decides to switch their base email provider (i.e., new cable provider), they don't have to notify all of their recipients to update their contacts with a new email address. For this to work completely the email provider has to provide a way of setting the Reply To email address from a list of approved email addresses. Looking for similar functionality with ProtonMail.
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drjrm commented
I've voted for this but the description is quite vague. Here is what I would like and some possible ways to achieve it:
I would like the ability for me easily to use ProtonMail with an email address at a domain name I own, so that when people send messages to {my.name}@{mydomain.com} they appear in my ProtonMail inbox; and similarly when I send mail from ProtonMail I can choose whether to send it so that it appears to be from {my.name}@{mydomain.com} or the usual {mylogin}@protonmail.ch. When replying to a message which came in from {my.name}@{mydomain.com} the system would ideally have the logic also to select {my.name}@{mydomain.com} as the default 'from' address.
Clearly there are different ways to achieve this feature. My actual domain name provider have mail servers which could be configured to forward mail to my protonmail.ch account. The feature request would therefore be fulfilled if ProtonMail could be configured (via web login) to send email using any 'from' address that I own. Clearly there would need to be verification that I really do own the address to avoid ProtonMail servers being abused.
As an alternative method for receiving mail at a domain I own, I could point my domain's MX records at ProtonMail, but then in addition to the above, my ProtonMail account would need the ability to configure which external email addresses to accept for my account.
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Jeb Kerman commented
Other services allow one to point a domain's MX record at their mail server. That's what this is saying, and that would be incredibly awesome.
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traveller1 commented
Yes, I greatly like this feature. I have a personal email address that I would like to appear as my email when I use protonmail.
There is an "ALIASES" feature in settings, but it is non-operational. -
Lou commented
Once your alternate email address has been verified and set up in the ProtonMail composer window (eg. blahblah@yahoo.com), you can choose to forward those emails (sent to blahblah@yahoo.com) to Protonmail if you wish. it will become your default inbox from which you can send both classic and encrypted messages with your old email address.
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Lou commented
no, you only need to verify the email address's owner. After it's just an optional from-line email in the composer window which you can select or set as default.
Everything go through ProtonMail.
That's how Gmail handle alternate email addresses. They send a verification code to the other email address (eg. Yahoo Mail) to verify the owner. Then you enter the code on Gmail's settings and then they add it to their composer window.They just add "on behalf of Gmail" next to it to inform people that the message was actually sent through Gmail's server (instead of Yahoo Mail for instance) -
AP commented
The point of ProtonMail is encryption.
How is the email to be encrypted if it has to pass through a Google/Yahoo/Microsoft server first?
I'm really asking. Is it possible? -
AP commented
The point of ProtonMail is encryption.
How is the email to be encrypted if it has to pass through a Google/Yahoo/Microsoft server first?
I'm really asking. Is it possible? -
Tuomas commented
Agree with others: once this feature and aliases is in place, I will move over to Protonmail.
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Gee commented
Since i own my personal domain, I have a custom email address. Also other people will not be moving to ProtonMail if they can't send messages from their existing Yahoo, Outlook.com or Gmail email address.
We need a system that will verify our existing email address and add them as alias in ProtonMail's composer windows.