Proton Duo with shared email inbox
It would be nice if the members of a Duo had a shared email address and inbox. Most couples need at times to communicate jointly together as a couple, either socially or for household business.
It would be even better if a Duo also included a full joint account with all features so that there is equality in the way information is shared and used.
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George Willington commented
I would totallylove a feature like that where both parteners can have acces to the same email address. Like:
- I have my original mailbox
- my partener has their original mailbox
- and we have a shared email address where we both receive every email sent to it in both of our respective mailbox. And the abality to respond to that email with the same shared email address.Currently the only thing you can do right now is to create an email address like 'Doe.Family@pm.me' for exemple for yourself and use it like so, but your partener can't see all the emails sent to this address (unless you transfer all of them, but that would be cumbersome) and can't respond themselves either.
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Dee commented
It's very difficult to get my husband to leave gmail or other information selling conglomerates where we can share an email for the safer proton mail if we cannot share an email account for bills and other joint accounts.
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Mesh commented
It’s should be a priority.
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Sean commented
Why create a duo plan and market it for couples without having a joint email inbox. I wanted to use the duo account with my partner. But without the joint email inbox with options for a few joint email accounts to share this doesn't have much purpose other than a small discount for two proton unlimited accounts.
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Jesse commented
Some ideas for implementing this:
1. Maybe Proton could create mail-only accounts so that the joint account would not be entitled to VPN, etc. benefits? Then one could be included in Duo and would avoid people abusing Duo to add a third person.
2. Or maybe Proton could make explicitly joint accounts which can be accessed by the two Duo users (basically, encrypt the joint account keys using each of the user's passwords). This has a few benefits, including tracking who does what in the joint account for auditing purposes (to figure out source of a hack, etc.), and can be reused for business use cases (support teams with shared inbox, etc.). It could also allow you to sign into a single user and unlock keys for all the accounts you have access to at once, avoiding the need to sign into each one-by-one.
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Paul commented
This is absolutely essential.
Personal context : On Proton unlimited plan, own a domain name that is intended to be used by family members in the long run. Wife still on gmail. Convinced her to use Proton (free) for our joint address, created for domestic and baby purposes.
Now Duo is a thing, but I absolutely won't be able to convince her to move to a paying plan -duo-, if it can't :
1. include the joint address so we can use the domain
2. allow advanced settings like fully sharing a drive space as co-owners, for baby pics, household stuff.It should either be a full joint account, or two separate individual accounts with shared admin powers. Maybe some decisions requiring approval by the other account ?