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      3 years ago

      In the EU (with better-than-nothing privacy legislation) we have a lot of companies that own data centers that offer hosted mail services, thats also what I compared them to when I said they are expensive. But they of course don’t have all the nice software and you have to do the (end-to-end) encryption on your own. They (have to) do transport encryption where possible but they don’t usually enforce encryption when you connect via IMAP/POP3/SMTP. So there is a lot more users can do wrong. But I think that when using a webinterface doing the encryption outside of the browser is a good idea.