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Originally Posted by dantheman
If i use a Protonmail account to send emails to people who only use Gmail or Outlook (whose services keep tabs on the data they receive), why bother using this secure email service? Only to send to someone who already has a Proton account?
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When you send a Protonmail
encrypted email to a non-Protonmail account, like Gmail, the receiver receives a link to the secure message and needs a password (that you set and provide) to view it.
Encrypted emails aren't sent to Gmail or Outlook so they can't be read/analysed by those services, although those services would have a record of the "You have received a secure message ..." email and the link.