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Re: Protonmail was down

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All of them, sadly. Outlook is probably the craziest of all, adding the a /16 of Hetzner, because 1 IP sent spam.

Wait but if microsoft completely blocks a cloud provider wrt. any mail sending this is a form of illegal hindering of competition as far as I can tell.

Yeah. And nobody can do anything other than wait until their period has passed. I had to mail Hetzner multiple times because of this.

Re: Protonmail was down

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Super unusual. I've never encountered the issue before or since.

Found this thread http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/OT-protonmail-mail... Someone was complaining that mail sent from ProtonMail was unreadable to them. Turned out to be because of base64 encoding. Which is an RFC standard. However, several people in the thread insist that this is a problem. Theo de Raadt, the founder and leader of OpenBSD says in the thread: > Maybe it should be blocked. Then the users there…

Wait, Protonmail sends regular email as base64? Why would they do such a weird thing?

It seems that that mailing list is "Plain text, 72 characters per line" by policy.

Re: Protonmail was down

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post #50

Great timing /s. I switched to PM on Friday. I love the combination of features though. I pay for pro so I get catch-all email on custom domains. Really helps to see who sells your info and secure storage and no advertising with good web-mail client are obviously major selling points too. I wish them luck resolving the situation.

Catch-all is nice but I came from the self-hosting world where I could also customise the from address when I reply to a catch-all email. Protonmail only lets you reply from a non-catch-all address, so you end up leaking your "private" address if you ever reply. That's my only real complaint about Protonmail. I requested this feature but I doubt it's high up their priority list.

There is an additional problem with catch-all emails on a custom domain, the domain itself is a uniquely identifiable substring (easy for data-gobblers and advertisers to trade or sell).

Why not use a relay service like [https://relay.firefox.com] or [https://owlmail.io]?

Since most senders aren't using PGP/E2EE your effective security risk is equivalent. Plus you can still discover address misuse/sale/leakage, disable addresses at will, and your privacy increases.

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