Comment by flupe
3 years ago
Nowadays they do provide an app (Import-Export) to export all your mail, even for free tier accounts, so it's quite easy to move away.
See: https://proton.me/support/export-emails-import-export-app
3 years ago
Nowadays they do provide an app (Import-Export) to export all your mail, even for free tier accounts, so it's quite easy to move away.
See: https://proton.me/support/export-emails-import-export-app
Hmm.
When I was using Protonmail in free tier, the Import-Export feature was only for the paid tier.
Seems strange that they only opened it for free tier now. This should be a feature available to any tier in the first place.
I see it as a way of getting paid for the development of services. People willing to pay for an offering are more likely to provide quality feedback. Once it is stable there and dev time has been recouped, you can offer it to the free tier.
I actually don't have an issue with that. Once it is available to free tier users, it frees up the devs to go to the next item on the list once again only available to the paid users. Lather, rinse, repeat. Sounds like a fairly sound bizplan.
> I see it as a way of getting paid for the development of services.
The obvious reason is that a company has an incentive to make it easy to onboard and no incentive to help you migrate off or even an incentive to make it difficult or costly to leave. I don't see how making import/export something only a payed tier has is specifically or especially for funding development. It's not the deal breaker or the reason people choose Protonmail over others, even if it can be a consideration.
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Good. If you want to pay with your personal data, use gmail. If you want to keep your personal data, then pay the people who run the service with actual money.
Which is close-source (or I didn't find it in their github repo).
The repository for Proton Mail Bridge (which is open source) claims to also host the source for the Import Export app.
Here: https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge
Briefly looking at the files and code it's hard to tell whether that is still the case, but it's fair to assume Import-Export would reuse most of the machinery behind Bridge.
bridge exposes imap making it easy to download all your data using Thunderbird or another client. I don't know about "export" because imap does what I want and is supported by most providers in the same format.
Does it - legally - matter?
For those who care about OSS and moving to Protonmail from bigcorps email, this _might_ matter, although I think that for the majority of Protonmail users (which doesn't care much about open source), it doesn't matter.
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