One ProtonMail, even when based in Switzerland, is, as service, vulnerable to rogue BigBrother goverments (like the US one) attacks by the fact, that it’s one service. And it’s also way to spread the ProtonMail idea to thousands of implementations of secure e-mail services in the world, which the BigBrother will have hard time to cope with. Of course it will be long run and of course, after new standard eventually published, there will be yet needed time for developers of e-mail clients to implement it, but, from long-term view, it’s the best way. Rather then developing the new protocol completely separately, I think best way would be to try to get in touch with IMAP working group of IETF and help to incorporate the necessary features into new version of IMAP. So, in principle, there is needed to design new standard protocol like IMAP, but with ability to deal with encrypted inboxes. Problem is, that IMAP, as is currently, is not designed to deal with encrypted inboxes. It would definitely increase usability of Protonmail, to have access to Protonmail inbox from native mail clients, by protocol like IMAP over SSL.
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