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If you opt to send an encrypted message outside of Tutanota, first you set a password, then it sends a link to a special inbox where the user can use the password to log in and reply. The message's contents don't ever get sent in the clear, and only their encrypted contents get stored on Tutanota's servers.

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That's not really email then (in the sense of interoperating with the email standards). It's more like a web based private message system with everything on one server. In that case though, why store anything on servers at all? Store everything on the clients instead. I believe there are some systems that do that.

It is more like that, but from the Tutanota user's standpoint, it acts like regular email and shows up in their inbox. It's all stored on their server so you can log in from any browser.

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