Since this relies on a local index, does that not mean that it needs to download all your email to be able to search it? And if I want to search on a new device it needs to download all my emails for me to search?
ProtonMail now offers entire message content search
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#12I despise the fact that they keep people from migrating away. They're not giving any option of forwarding the emails for free, which means you can't make a smooth transition out.
They also make it really hard to sell a house, when you sell and move to a new house they dont let you continue to live in the old one for a few months to make the transition smoother.
You have time between the offer acceptance and the closing to move out. You usually can buy a new house on the contingency that your current house will be sold. And you can of course get your mail forwarded for quite a while by the postal service with a simple form.
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#13I did move to Fastmail, had enough of Protonmail. UI is bad, important and useful functionality is missing and their release cycle is appallingly slow.
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#14Since this relies on a local index, does that not mean that it needs to download all your email to be able to search it? And if I want to search on a new device it needs to download all my emails for me to search?
From what I gather from the article, yes: the index is stored on your browser. From the post:
This means that when you have search message content enabled, but your web browser is closed, an attacker with physical access to your device cannot read the contents of the index file. If you are logged in with your ProtonMail tab open, a decrypted version is stored in memory, but at this point, they would have direct access to your emails, anyway.
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#15This is great news, as mail without search is a hugely crippling situation. Note that the feature is for premium (paid) users only. There's no mention of whether or not this will also be available in iOS or Android apps as well. Information on this would be appreciated.
The announcement is specific to " ProtonMail web app". Also: Available to everyone with a Plus, Professional, or Visionary plan
Right, I saw that.
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#16Since this relies on a local index, does that not mean that it needs to download all your email to be able to search it? And if I want to search on a new device it needs to download all my emails for me to search?
I'm curious about this myself.
I activated the feature today, and my Indexed DB for mail.protonmail.com now has a table "messages", and each message has an ID, a time, and an "aesGcmCiphertext" object with 2 child objects of keys "iv" and "ciphertext". The "iv" object has 12 integer keys from 0-11, with integer values between 0-255. I don't see any data in the "ciphertext" object at all.
I am not well versed in indexeddb so can't shed more light.
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#17Since this relies on a local index, does that not mean that it needs to download all your email to be able to search it? And if I want to search on a new device it needs to download all my emails for me to search?
I'm curious about this myself. I activated the feature today, and my Indexed DB for mail.protonmail.com now has a table "messages", and each message has an ID, a time, and an "aesGcmCiphertext" object with 2 child objects of keys "iv" and "ciphertext". The "iv" object has 12 integer keys from 0-11, with integer values between 0-255. I don't see any data in the "ciphertext" object at all. I am not well versed in index…
Could you run this to check how much space it is using? `navigator.storage.estimate().then(estimate => console.log('Usage (MB): ', Math.round(estimate.usage / (1024 * 1024))))`
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
They also make it really hard to sell a house, when you sell and move to a new house they dont let you continue to live in the old one for a few months to make the transition smoother.
You have time between the offer acceptance and the closing to move out. You usually can buy a new house on the contingency that your current house will be sold. And you can of course get your mail forwarded for quite a while by the postal service with a simple form.
Nahh I still want to be able to live there, I particularly liked the upstairs toilet, its where I did my best work.
It should be no problems for the new owners to let me in and use it whenever I want. I know I dont own it anymore, but really it would just be unreasonable to not let me use it.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm curious about this myself. I activated the feature today, and my Indexed DB for mail.protonmail.com now has a table "messages", and each message has an ID, a time, and an "aesGcmCiphertext" object with 2 child objects of keys "iv" and "ciphertext". The "iv" object has 12 integer keys from 0-11, with integer values between 0-255. I don't see any data in the "ciphertext" object at all. I am not well versed in index…
Could you run this to check how much space it is using? `navigator.storage.estimate().then(estimate => console.log('Usage (MB): ', Math.round(estimate.usage / (1024 * 1024))))`
That script returns 53MB for me, while the Protonmail GUI says my inbox uses 418MB.
I do not know how much of my inbox is attachments and embedded images though.