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Re: ProtonMail Now Supports Bitcoin Payments

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Post by arosier »

blunte wrote: post #32

More "progress" from ProtonMail, while they still provide no way to export emails in bulk. They recommend you forward every individual email or print it. The Export feature has been an open request since before March 2015. Another feature which would give users a way to get their mail out of PM is the ability to check mail from a client like Outlook or Thunderbird. That has been an open feature request since before F…

If you're a paying member just shoot them an email and they'll add you to the list for the Bridge beta. See: https://protonmail.com/bridge/

I got in after a few weeks.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/6fbzzb/dying_wi...

Re: ProtonMail Now Supports Bitcoin Payments

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Post by laken »

tscs37 wrote: post #48
arkadiyt wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just set it up for my custom domain and it could not have been any simpler or easier. They have a really clean UI/status checks for setting up MX/SPF/DKIM/DMARC, I setup some custom addresses and a catch-all and it all just worked.

How is their catchall support? Last I checked into the status, they only planned to support it for business accounts and limited sending to only a few aliases.

I went with Fastmail for catchall because since the last time I checked (about a month ago) they still didn't support it fully. I hope they do support it fully in the future as I'd seriously consider switching.

Re: ProtonMail Now Supports Bitcoin Payments

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Post by influx »

MollyR wrote: post #34

I'm thinking of switching my business email to protonmail from gmail. Any users like it ? The whole google memo revealed google employees are not as trustworthy as I thought. All the social media talk of blacklists, and inquisition tactics from some of upper management is bad for business. I've already gotten emails from clients asking me to change their business google services to something else (anything else in th…

Also the fact that they leaked an internal document to the world doesn't give me great confidence they won't do that again. There have already been instance of Google employees snooping in gmail:

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-engineer-stalked-teens...

Re: ProtonMail Now Supports Bitcoin Payments

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Post by arosier »

tscs37 wrote: post #48
arkadiyt wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just set it up for my custom domain and it could not have been any simpler or easier. They have a really clean UI/status checks for setting up MX/SPF/DKIM/DMARC, I setup some custom addresses and a catch-all and it all just worked.

How is their catchall support? Last I checked into the status, they only planned to support it for business accounts and limited sending to only a few aliases.

ProtonMail now supports catch-all email for ProtonMail Professional and Visionary plans. That means for each domain that has email hosted at ProtonMail, you can now designate one email address as the catch-all address by going to Settings –> Domains. For example, info@me.com could receive any email sent to the @me.com domain, even if the address did not exist. You can learn more about catch-all emails here (https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/catch-all/).

https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-v3-10-release-notes/

Re: ProtonMail Now Supports Bitcoin Payments

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Post by dgut »

influx wrote: post #53
MollyR wrote: post #34

I'm thinking of switching my business email to protonmail from gmail. Any users like it ? The whole google memo revealed google employees are not as trustworthy as I thought. All the social media talk of blacklists, and inquisition tactics from some of upper management is bad for business. I've already gotten emails from clients asking me to change their business google services to something else (anything else in th…

Also the fact that they leaked an internal document to the world doesn't give me great confidence they won't do that again. There have already been instance of Google employees snooping in gmail: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-engineer-stalked-teens...

What makes you think ProtonMail employees couldn't do the same? Not a critique of PM (I'm a paying user myself), but this is not a reason to switch.

Re: ProtonMail Now Supports Bitcoin Payments

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Post by tscs37 »

arosier wrote: post #54
tscs37 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is their catchall support? Last I checked into the status, they only planned to support it for business accounts and limited sending to only a few aliases.

ProtonMail now supports catch-all email for ProtonMail Professional and Visionary plans. That means for each domain that has email hosted at ProtonMail, you can now designate one email address as the catch-all address by going to Settings –> Domains. For example, info@me.com could receive any email sent to the @me.com domain, even if the address did not exist. You can learn more about catch-all emails here ( https://…

That's great to hear.

I'll probably have my current mail service run out and then switch to protonmail for personal mail and selfhosted mail for spamming notifications from my nextcloud instance.

Re: ProtonMail Now Supports Bitcoin Payments

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Post by dijit »

dgut wrote: post #55
influx wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also the fact that they leaked an internal document to the world doesn't give me great confidence they won't do that again. There have already been instance of Google employees snooping in gmail: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-engineer-stalked-teens...

What makes you think ProtonMail employees couldn't do the same? Not a critique of PM (I'm a paying user myself), but this is not a reason to switch.

Some of their software stack is open source. You can go have a look how it works for yourself, of course you have to trust that what they opened is what they run- but the foundations seem solid at least.

https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient

Re: ProtonMail Now Supports Bitcoin Payments

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Post by HNNoLikey »

e12e wrote: post #42
HNNoLikey wrote: post #25

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Had similar questions yesterday and some hackers responded here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15016338

That doesn't seem to address hostile mixers? Running dark-net bazaars, bitcoin mixers and "hacker"(cracker) forums seems like trivial intel basics. Just like running "anonymous" [ed:remailers,[1]] and tor nodes. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixmaster_anonymous_remailer

I actually think it would suffice to payout at random times with an insanely high number of bitcoin addresses (all autogenerated via a script) for high number of users (the more the better). It would be virtually impossible to know who got how much BTC out (may be in, but not out).

As for the hostile mixers, I'm afraid I can't offer any solution other than to rely on reputation. That said, it is rather telling that bitmixer.io is closing [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14843373]. It may not be safe to run a mixer; the feds may come after you.

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