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I dont get any of those "encrypted mail" services.
You need an app with good PGP support.
I have no idea what an "encrypted mail" provider is supposed to do differently. Either you use E2EE or you have to trust some random people.
But what you are suggesting only works if you only communicate with people who use gpg-aware clients, right? I've done that for years but I was mostly only able to sign my emails because nobody cares.
But of course when using a provider like Proton you can only trust them to keep just encrypted data.
Yes nobody cares and that is bad. But I have no idea how "encrypted providers" want to change that.
Well everyone on proton uses it by default. And if more adopt that strategy then maybe