a couple of question about how unlimited works…
can 2 individuals use the email service with one unlimited account, or do you need Family for that to happen?
is there a separate windows APP for proton email?
how does a non proton email user open an email that I send from my proton email account? Can they just click on it and read it in their email app, or is there a process they go through to be able to read it and respond?
can you use your existing gmail/outlook/liveemail addresses, but have all email sent and received through proton mail?
thank you
- Yes but you would be sharing a login so this isn’t recommended. A family account would be required.
2 Yes but these are in beta on some platforms. You can use proton bridge for now to have mail in your currently mail app of choice (if supported)
3 Yes for receiving. No for sending. My suggestion would be to slowly make these changes and stop using Gmail and others. You can set up forwarding within the proton settings and then simply as you receive mail, make a note if you wish to swap the email over to proton and then do so, Or mark it as junk on Gmail (this will stop you receiving it on proton as junk mail is not forwarded)
Take care.
thank you that was helpful!
No worries at all. Happy to help with any questions you may have.
one more quick one; if I do not want to make people use a password to open my emails, since most of them will complain about needing an extra step to just read my emails, is there any security gains I would see just using proton email WITOUUT encrypting my outgoing emails to others?
thanks!
No worries at all.
Not really no. Whilst it would be protected on your emails, on theirs it would be open to whatever service they used.
Proton to proton is encrypted by default. But sending emails externally I’d recommend you only password protect those with sensitive information or attachments.
For general communication I would recommend using an e2ee messaging service like Signal or Threema anyway and not email.
Proton’s benefit is in privacy as well as security. Your emails are not scanned by corporations and sold to advertisers like they are on other providers. So whilst the e2ee benefit isn’t used always, there are still big benefits to be had with your own inbox.