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Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Built-in end-to-end encryption
Pro No personal information needed
To create an account you don't need to give any personal information, just choose username, domain, and password. Even the recovery email address is optional.
Pro Privacy respecting
User data is protected by strict privacy laws because all servers are located in Switzerland.
Pro Open Source
Pro Mobile apps
Apps for Android and iOS available.
Pro Perfect for Newsletter Readers
Newsletter readers often complain about getting too many emails in their personal inbox and losing important emails because of these emails. With Mailscribe, losing important mails in your personal inbox is over.
Pro Daily Digest
It sends a daily summary of all incoming emails to your personal email address. In this way, no matter how many junk emails or newsletters you receive, only one email arrives in your personal mailbox. You can turn this feature off if you want.
Pro A Community for Newsletters
You can write reviews for the newsletters you follow and rate them. You can learn more about other newsletters by reading other users' reviews. You can also write comments under the emails you receive and discuss with other members.
Pro Perfect for Discovering New Newsletters
You can discover new newsletters that you can follow by filtering the newsletters that are suitable for you on the Mailscribe Discover page.
Pro Unlimited inbox features
Pro Ability to create multiple email accounts
You can open multiple email accounts and follow them all from a single page. This will help you a lot in situations where you need to write an email on the Internet.
Cons
Con Javascript-intensive Webmail
Free accounts are required to use Javascript webmail and encryption is done in the browser. Javascript cryptography is harmful for security and should not be used.
Con Encryption Keys are stored server-side
The keys are generated during account creation. Using your existing keys is prohibited and ProtonMail must store and control the private keys. Encryption cannot be secure unless the user controls the private keys.
Con Still lacks some useful features
At the moment, there is no calendar feature and contact management is quite poor. They will, however, start to work on it.
Con Ties to US Investors
ProtonMail takes money from US Investors
Con No IMAP and SMTP support for basic accounts
Basic accounts are restricted to the Protonmail web client. Support for IMAP and SMTP is available with a paid subscription only, and as such with basic accounts it is not possible to send and receive email with external applications.
Con Overly expensive for desktop support
Con Requires phone number for login
If you sign up over Tor or a VPN, it will require email or phone number verification. Email verification is disabled if you use an email that isn't from Google or Outlook.
Con Not fully Open Source
Con Cannot delete created email accounts
But you can disable it.
