Is ProtonMail account free?

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ProtonMail is a free email service for the public good. Your contribution helps us support more users and continue to develop ProtonMail as free and open source software.

Can police track ProtonMail?

ProtonMail is an email service that provides security and anonymity to its users. With the right cyber investigation tools, we can trace IP addresses from nearly anything: ProtonMail, text messages, social media messages, and we can defeat VPN.

Why is ProtonMail free?

Pricing: free!

Because we rely on our users for funding, and because our users rely on ProtonMail to protect their data, we are always incentivized to keep our users’ data secure and private. Your funding pays for the development of new features and services, as well as the cost of running ProtonMail.

Why is ProtonMail so expensive?

The biggest cost is labor and data center. Tutanota uses hetzner in Germany while Proton maintains their own infrastructure in Switzerland. The difference in cost is massive due to higher cost of labor in Switzerland and the extra cost of data center engineers and people managing those servers.

Is ProtonMail worth paying for?

ProtonMail is one of the only companies offering an alternative, and it is arguably the best. That is something that’s worth supporting. And since there’s a limited version that’s available for free, you can be sure that ProtonMail’s is sincerely committed to providing the best security to everyone who needs it.

Is ProtonMail safer than Gmail?

Is Protonmail safer than Gmail? Yes. End-to-end encryption is king when it comes to data protection. All data stored on ProtonMail is encrypted, so neither hackers nor ProtonMail employees can read the contents of your messages.

Do hackers use ProtonMail?

ProtonMail, a popular encrypted email provider, is warning about a recent phishing attack on customer accounts that may have come from Russian state-sponsored hackers. However, the phishing scheme underscores how a ProtonMail account can be vulnerable to intrusion, despite the use of end-to-end encryption.

How much does ProtonMail cost?

Protonmail Pricing
Name Price Features
ProtonMail Plus $5per month $4 a month if paid yearly billed as $48 per year 5 GB Storage 1 Custom Domain 5 Addresses 1000 Messages per day 200 Labels Support Show More
ProtonMail Free Free 500 MB Storage 1 Address 150 Messages per day 20 Labels Limited Support

Can you have 2 ProtonMail accounts?

Introducing multi-account support for ProtonMail Android. Version 1.12 of the ProtonMail Android app makes it easy for anyone to manage multiple ProtonMail accounts right on their phone. This feature allows you to be logged into multiple ProtonMail accounts at the same time, and easily switch between their inboxes.

What is better than ProtonMail?

Tutanota encrypts more sections of your email and inbox than ProtonMail (your calendar and address book) while also giving you a zero-knowledge text search. No one at Tutanota can see what you search for within your emails.

Does ProtonMail delete inactive accounts?

Although it is not the current practice, we reserve the right to suspend or delete accounts that are inactive for over three months.

How many ProtonMail can you have?

five ProtonMail addresses

How many email accounts can I have with ProtonMail?

Premium users can also have up to five ProtonMail addresses. Free users just get one. A StartMail subscription gets you one primary account and two feature-limited companion accounts. If you own your own domain, you can configure ProtonMail to use your personal email address, but only if you upgrade to premium.

Do ProtonMail accounts expire?

ProtonMail offers the ability to receive mail to an unlimited number of aliases by using a “+” symbol after your username in your email address.

Do ProtonMail accounts get deleted?

We have a 3 months inactivity policy, so if the account is not a paid account, and if another user requests it, and if the account doesn’t have any activity, sometimes the username will be released. This does not happen often however.

Does ProtonMail expire?

ProtonMail makes it possible to delete your account entirely. Once your account is deleted, there is no way to recover it. We do not recycle usernames, which means the same username will not be available in the future. If you wish to combine multiple ProtonMail accounts, please click here.

Do emails expire?

By default, all emails sent from your ProtonMail account do not expire.

Can you delete Protonvpn account?

Email addresses from the three most popular services, Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail, will not expire as long as you continue to use the account regularly. This is obviously assuming that the service itself keeps on running. However, each service has specified a period of inactivity.

Do Gmail accounts expire?

Log in to your account and navigate to Settings. On the Account tab scroll down and click on the “Delete your account” button. Once you click delete your account enter your Login password in the pop-up window and the account will be deleted.

Should I worry about old email accounts?

Google no longer deletes inactive Gmail accounts

Your Gmail account is considered inactive when you haven’t accessed it for more than 24 months (two years). If your account becomes inactive, you could lose the data that you stored in Gmail, such as messages, files, pictures, and videos.