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Comment by mark_l_watson | Hacker News Reader

I am a long time paying customer. Good to see improvements.

The one thing that keeps me from using Proton as my primary email is lack of email/calendar integration. When I get an email with an invite, I would like that to appear auto-magically on my calendar. When I assign my custom domain to Proton and use it heavily for a few months, this is what eventually makes me switch back to Apple/Gmail/FastMail.

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Mm, I am a paid customer as well. I use proton mail exclusively and I like the calendar. You can add events to your calendar from an email/invite. I also share calendars with non-proton users (my wife uses user iPhone/calendar app). I haven't had any issues with it.

I was a paid customer, and I still support ProtonMail's mission, but the app experience drove me to cancel my paid subscription and go with FastMail instead. The mobile client and desktop were never in sync; I'd swipe an email to archive and it'd show back up in the inbox, etc. It happened time and time and time again and I got sick of it having to clean up after their messy app.

I was working on a side project to do exactly this, including emails from Airbnb, hotel and flight bookings, but for fastmail :) I will check if I still have the code...

I gave up on it because I wasn't sure how to solve potential privacy issues or concerns if I wanted others to be able to use it.

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