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I am a long time paid user of Protonmail. This isn't the first issue I've seen. It's is really annoying I have to use a bridge at all to be honest.

That being said, I've evaluated other providers like Fastmail. While their service is good I am not a fan of reducing my privacy. So people like me are stuck between a rock and a hard place.

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> It's is really annoying I have to use a bridge at all to be honest.

That is literally the selling point of ProtonMail: the email is encrypted in storage on their servers (they don't have access to it), and thus you have to decrypt it locally on your machine, and the Bridge does that for you, because your email client does not know how to handle the encrypted content otherwise.

I would probably use Fastmail if they weren't based in Australia if I am being honest. ProtonMail makes it very hard to communicate with mailing lists.

No support for format=flowed or restricting the number of columns from what I can tell.

Super annoying.

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