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This ignores half the problem and it's telling you tried to slide past it. You certainly can and probably will deliver message content sent from a protonmail account to a non-protonmail account.

I'm not an expert in Swiss law, so I have no idea. I'll wait for a 3rd party I trust to vet your claim.

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What's the allegation here? The mail stored on proton's servers is encrypted. If you send that mail elsewhere, it's subject to the security of the receiving server and any intermediary servers.

That's not secret, or hidden by them.

ProtonMail will almost certainly send mail you receive from a non-protonmail sources to law enforcement if they're required to.

They're pointedly not denying they do so in every otherwise detailed response they've given on the subject so far.

They are not denying that, they clearly stated it:

> ProtonMail does not voluntarily offer assistance. We only do so when ordered by a Swiss court or prosecutor, as we are obligated to follow the law in criminal cases.

"ProtonMail will almost certainly send mail you receive from a non-protonmail sources to law enforcement if they're required to."

That wouldn't be ProtonMail'fault. Which email provider could refuse to comply with their own government orders and get away with it?

Apple and Google have made good shows of it. But also, ProtonMail could refuse to do non-encrypted email and then we wouldn't have this problem.

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