ProtonMail

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “Protonmail does not even show information that the email has expiration. Nor can you access log of deletions. This feature was used against me on a court trial.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-14

• “Most of my important email was migrated to a Protonmail account”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-10

• “I myself am pretty spoiled by Protonmail I think, really enjoying that.”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-04-09

• “I have been frustrated with ProtonMail for this exact reason, i have a catch all but responding is a hassle where i have to manually create an address”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-03-23

• “protonmail doesn't send complete text in its normal mode and I had to go find that out which took many tries”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-11

• “I use cloudflare + protonmail for my custom domain, but I have the feeling that some outgoing emails from my domain gets blocked... 90% deliverability means practically useless.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-03-07

• “switched to protonmail in 2014 and haven't looked around since”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-03-01

• “Protonmail is nearly as bad as outlook at dealing with spam. It's impossible to overstate how bad both of them are at filtering spam vs Gmail.”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-02-27

• “tried ProtonMail and some others like iCloud but found no equivalent”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-08

• “changing from gmail to protonmail was a small change from the outside but it made how I interact with account creation and handling of my data so much more enjoyable”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2025-11-14

• “I have good luck with Protonmail and it still supports POP3. You also get the benefit of encryption.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-10-03

• “I pay to use ProtonMail's privacy preserving Lumo LLM Chat with good web_search tooling”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-09-04

• “really simple to move around. I was able to move from Gmail to ProtonMail on a Sunday afternoon without anyone knowing that I'd made a change.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-08-22

• “I sign in to all my accounts, Bank, pay my bills, Utility Companies, Government, Lemmy, mastodon, Nextcloud, Kdrive, everything, with protonmail or tuta mail.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-08-22

• “When I went to ProtonMail, I religiously tracked every time I used it anywhere so I should be able to unwind it”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-08-21

• “My Protonmail messages to Mozilla Pocket's QA team are rejected by their Gmail service, and have been for years.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-01-23