protonmail
Proton (previously known as ProtonMail) is a “privacy and digital freedom” focused company based in Switzerland whose main offering is Proton Mail, offering end-to-end encryption, the promise of Swiss data security laws applying to oversight of your data, features to protect users from sender tracking, and more.If you’re looking to special case how you send mail to Proton’s subscriber base, for purposes of list segmentation, MTA throughput settings, or something similar, you’ll need to know all of Proton’s email domains.Their primary email domains are:proton.meprotonmail.compm.meprotonmail.ch The also host mail for various custom domains. Of the top 10 million domains, they host mail for just over six thousand email domains. To find those, look for domains that have an MX record pointing to “mail.protonmail.ch” or “mailsec.protonmail.ch.”
Privacy-first mailbox provider ProtonMail looks to be getting deeper into the email privacy game. Earlier this month they purchased a company called SimpleLogin, whose focus seems to be email aliasing and forwarding; sort of like Apple’s “Hide My Email” functionality. The goal seems to be to bring this functionality more natively into the ProtonMail experience. It’s good to have a competitor to Apple also seriously focused on privacy and tracking prevention, for those who want the functionality but don’t want to be part of the Apple universe. But that percentage of people who will be attracted to this, will they be enough to make ProtonMail a profit?
Today’s guest post comes from my colleague Jennifer Nespola Lantz, VP of Industry Relations and Deliverability at Kickbox, keeping us updated on yet another change that affects email privacy and tracking. Take it away, Jennifer!🔔 Ding, ding, ding 🔔 More fun updates about privacy in email. But first, those sneaky ‘spy pixels’ in email are still out there plundering the email world. So to combat them, we have another competitor out there vehemently shaking their fist in their air at them.Full disclosure, I’ve been an active user and proponent of open tracking as a tool for deliverability, but because it’s early in the week, I thought it would be fun to play the antagonist.On January 20th, Bleeping Computer reported on ProtonMail’s introduction of their email tracker blocking system. ProtonMail’s support page confirms that their new “enhanced tracking protection” is now enabled by default for all users. From what I’ve seen…
