Free, self hosted, private, encrypted email for everyone? 🤔
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You can’t have that. Big boys club issues aside with spam rankings there is no way to have encrypted and private e-mail. The SMTP protocol relies on message headers contained within the message.
The body might be encrypted but subject, sender, recipient, etc will be visible plain text to both MTAs handling your message delivery.
What Protonmail does is just encrypting the mailbox storage.
I'm aware. I'm just thinking out loud about something new
Email is a pain to manage self hosted. Spam and deliverability issues. tuta.com has encryption when both users have an account with them... But its not self hosted and in the end you will email 99.999999% of gmail users, so the encryption will not be used anyway...