Add support for Gmail accounts (external mail accounts)
Hi Proton, I love using Proton Mail but there is no getting away from using my Gmail account also.
I would love it if you could add desktop/web (and mobile) app support for Gmail accounts, so I can use just 1 email client (Proton Mail). It is perfectly fine, and expected, that you will not be able to offer the same security and encryption for Gmail as Protonmail. The value of adding this support is in the convenience.
I have spent a ton of time trying to make Proton Mail work with other clients like Spark, Airmail, and Canary (nevermind Superhuman) and while I can import and read them, none of the productivity features work well or at all. And, I'm tired of duplicating my organization efforts and managing to inboxes.
Thanks so much for all the great features you already added recently. I hoping for a few more. :)
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Jeroen van Dijk commented
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JG commented
To the persons who say adding this _optional_ feature that users can configure _if they choose to_ would break the security... how? If you simply don't add any SMTP configurations to send as from within your Proton mailbox, you haven't lost anything. And the users who do chose to do so, can still send Proton-to-Proton by simply not selecting the SMTP config in the send a field. Nobody loses any security that wasn't there choice to lose. If I send a message from Proton to an external mailbox, it's going to use SMTP to deliver it. So why not let me setup my external SMTP mailbox to send through directly from Proton, so that I can have all my mailboxes aggregated in my nice secure Proton mailbox?
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Dominic Renner commented
I would also love to have this feature. Mainly because I do not want to switch between mail apps all the time.
I know that this is a security risk, but maybe it would be possible to mark the mails coming from external providers. Maybe make the whole entry red in the webmail to show the user, that this is an insecure communication. -
Chad commented
That would break much of the security and privacy provided/obtained. So hard pass.
For the likes of Gmail, outlook, etc it is best to use a separate app.
There is no security for gmail as it resides and transits on Google's servers.
You can use PGP with GMail et al to get some privacy and security back. Things like Mailvelope or GPGTools work, though a little more manual work required.
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Kava Blanca commented
The free Mailvelope browser extension can be used to add PGP encryption and digital signing (certified email) to Gmail, Outook.com, and Yahoo web mail.