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Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service (www.ghacks.net)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You need a special app that they call a "bridge" because Proton doesn't support normal IMAP and SMTP, so you have to use the bridge to be able to use normal email clients.

But they are now porting their webmail as a cross-platform desktop Electron app, after which they'll just likely discontinue the bridge "for safety". And so this issue will become moot.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I'm grateful you put "for safety" in quotes there. That's definitely bullshit talk. I'm further grateful that I just self-host my email. I can skip the bullshit of companies making random decisions that are ultimately against my wishes.