[NEWS] official proton mail desktop app in 2024

[pirate486743186]

@vladimiry
In case you didn't know
https://proton.me/support/mail-desktop-app
It's in restricted beta now, it will be freely available beta in a few months.

What do you plan on doing?

Maybe, now you could transplant the brains of both proton mail and tutanota in one app?
Or you simply shut down electron-mail?

[vladimiry]

Some thoughts were shared in #650. Generally, based on a brief private communication with them and some code highlighted in #650 (comment), I knew their electron-based app is coming.

Maybe, now you could transplant the brains of both proton mail and tutanota in one app?

The app originally was designed to be able to support multiple email providers. Originally, Tutanota support was here, including support for offline access to the emails, but then it got cut out from the app, and it's not getting back. One could think, that the reason is that they rolled out their one desktop app, but that was not the only reason and not the primary one.

Or you simply shut down electron-mail?

Shutting it down, "archiving" the project in terms of GitHub, closing the project updates for public, might happen, but it's not there yet. The primary reason is that I still use ElectronMail since it still fulfills my needs. Besides, there are some features in ElectronMail I use, that I don't believe the official app is going to provide.

[pirate486743186]

What about shutting down electron-mail and instaid making a mod of the official client and contribute patches upstream? In theory it will be less work and better quality. In theory you could do that with the tutanota client too ( if you care for a plan B if things go wrong).

[vladimiry]

As said before, ElectronMail still fulfills my needs, so starting a new open source project is not happening in the near future, especially if it's related to Tutanota.

[git70]

Just my two cents to think about:

1. The official PM client will never be as good and functional as EM because many of EM's features are against the interests of PM as a company
2. I think that many users will not change EM to the official PM client
3. The PM client will probably not connect to the TOR .onion site
4. I suspect that PM will not have two security features:

• Built-in / static webclients
• Block non API-Entry-Point

[pirate486743186]

Don't be so sure about that. It's large companies that tend to be excessively greedy and short sighted. This happens because responsibilities get too diluted. Small companies are more varied, it depends on who has control over them.