Protonmail Rant

The way the proton-mail-export-cli does its job is almost malicious.

Who wouldn't want a folder with almost 100k files where half are .eml email-files and half are the metadata as json.

No folders, no tags, no nothing.

One could probably figure out that information by parsing the metadata.
But everything in there is either also part of the .eml file or a UUID without any reference to what it means whatsoever.

Threre's some stuff that *looks* like base64 but isn't as well.

So plan B it is:
Download everything using the bridge and then letting thunderbird export it folder-by-folder so I can import it into tuta.

The Tags were set automatically anyway, so I can just do that again after the fact (hopefully)

Oh, yeah I should've started the thread with this info maybe:

The ProtonMail CEO is a weak man who can't apologize after saying something stupid and abusing a company-account to double down on it.

A "clarification" isn't the same as an apology, even less so when it's only posted on Reddit.

And since Tuta finally added their long-awaited import feature in December, I decided to jump ship.

There were a couple of things PM did that I didn't like, but this was the straw that broke the camel's back.

On the Tuta-side everything is set up and ready to import.
The only hiccup I had was that they apparently can automatically set tags on incoming emails (or maybe I just can't find the setting for it)

While this would be nice to have, It's not a dealbreaker by any means.

The big step back IMO is that they don't do PGP at all.

I get the encryption part, because PGP mail encryption is shit.
But it would be nice If I could sign my emails.

But that's a low price to pay to not be reliant on a company whose CEO thinks Trump fights against big tech and cares about the small guy.

I've been talking with Proton support in two different tickets:
The one where I asked if there's a refund at all and the one where I asked to get that refund. (I assumed they'd close No1)

Today I got my favorite response so far:
> I [...] hope that we will get the chance to rectify this.

Crazy that there wasn't a single point in the whole line of fuckups where they had a chance to fix the situation.

I guess that's just destiny (or whatever else some people claim to believe in so they can evade the consequences for their actions)