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Mail redirection function (NOT the same as forwarding)

A mail REDIRECTION function should be made available in addition to the existing FORWARDING function in Proton Mail web mail. The mail redirect function has been available on common web mail front end UIs such as the HORDE web mail system popular with many regular ISP which provide web mail interface to their mail servers. Redirect is NOT the same as forwarding because redirect is as if the mail arrived at an e-mail address which is just a forwarder address and continues send the e-mail on to its final destination. This would allow PM users to redirect any e-mails they receive into the PM account to a regular e-mail address (albeit without encryption, if the user deems that encryption is not essential for specific e-mails being redirected), and e-mails at the target e-mail address that an email from PM is being redirected to can be picked up using a regular mail client program while preserving all the mail threading indexes on the mail client after such e-mails are retrieved.

Redirection eliminates changes in the subject field (where a FW: or similar notation is added when mails are forwarded rather than redirected) and provides mail threading continuity in the mail client used to collect such redirected mails.

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