pheinlein

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In a technical language, "rejecting" (I don't accept that message) and "bouncing" (I accept it, but I will send it back later) is clear defined. Returning would be "bouncing", because I do NOT return, I do NOT ACCEPT.

That's a big and very important difference.

Comment · 12 years ago

Yes, we HAD access to the plaintext e-mail. And we explain that and warn about that.

But after encrypting the e-mail, nobody will have access to that e-mail any more: Even hackers, phishers or the government. Many people are storing their e-mails for years in their INBOX. Great to protect those e-mails over the time.

But, anyway: The best way is always to use real end-to-end-encryption. In that case, you don't have to trust us any more. We're happy to help to set this up.

Comment · 12 years ago

We're not native english speakers and we just got everything back from our translation office. We're still proofreading our website and the translations.

"marketing speech" is not our way of talking and if the translation office did a bad job there, we'll correct that. But there wasn't enough time to read and correct everything.

We just started last week with our englisch website, please give us some days.

Peer (mailbox.org)

Comment · 12 years ago

We ARE clear about that. It's explained on

https://mailbox.org/en/doodle-video-explains-fully-encrypted...

and our doodle film explains the benefit and risk.

Using the feature does not forbit to set up a "real" PGP end-to-end-encryption. Users should do that and our job is to help them -- step by step. And we're explaining that to them.

Our encrypted INBOX is useful in case an e-mail hasn't been sent encrypted, because there ARE many senders (like companies or unexperienced users) that do NOT encrypt their e-mail. That's how it is, so we have to deal with that. It's a kind of "add on".

Right today round about 10% of our inboxes are completly encrypted. That's great, but we'll still have to raise that level. An: > 10% of our users are familiar with encryption in their daily e-mail-usage. -And they will explain that to friends, business contacts and family. The usage and knowledge of encryption has to grow -- and having an encrypted INBOX is one (!) step to it.

Peer (mailbox.org)

Comment · 12 years ago

Spam is REJECTED and not deleted. In cause of a possible false positive the sender (!) will receive a non delivery report. Deleted e-mails is always forbidden.

Peer (mailbox.org)

Comment · 12 years ago

A SINA Box is nothing else then a kind of VPN Gateway. A SINA Box does NOT provide direct access to a user's mailstore or something else. The still have to get in contact with the ISP to set the interception up and running. There's is no "silent access" just because of having a SINA box.

Anyway: mailbox.org does NOT have a SINA box installed.

Peer (founder of mailbox.org)