This is not to promote the product. I merely came across it and couldnt find any reviews except for those from Google Play. I use Android and as much as I hate iOS, their Email app is very consistent regardless if you use their .mac email or Gmail. On Android, it is very difficult to find an email app that is decent. I’ve been on Fairmail for quite a while until recently when I have sync problems.

So I dig around and found “EPRIVO - Encrypted email and chat”. It was a surprise because I am constantly on the look for a good email app (and browser !) on Android. Usually, on Google Play, you will see: Gmail, Thunderbird, Proton, Outlook, Edison Fairmail…etc. I never see Eprivo before.

Anyway, I tested it out on a Gmail account. The app works quite well, here is what I learn:

  1. You are forced to create a blanket Eprivo account. This takes like 10 seconds. Then this Eprivo account is then used to get you access to the email app. You can use any email account within it: Gmail, Yahoo. I use Gmail and it works well.

  2. The privacy features are interesting. You can do a lot of stuff like prevent forwarding, set timer so email can only be read once, password protect…etc. Now I also used Proton in the past and these features are exclusive to a .proton account. In this app, I can do some of them such as setting the timer on an email. To get the full private features, you need to create a Eprivo email (very easy to create within the app). So, you will have something like abc@eprivovip.com.

  3. Prices are surprisingly cheap: 5 bucks / year.

  4. They advertise themselves as not an email service but to my understanding a “privatized email service”. So it is like a private layer on top of your existing email.

Any thoughts?

  • bacon_pdp@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago
    1. most of that is bullshit and the rest is horseshit.
    2. sending email involves metadata that can and will be scraped. ( from, to, subject, etc)
    3. if you want the contents of an email secured, use age or gnupg to create an encrypted message that uses your recipient’s public keys and post that in your email to them.
    4. If you want secured emails from other people, then you need to securely give them a copy of your public key in a manner that resists man in the middle attacks.
    5. once sent, you lose all control over what they do with it and you can’t unsend, delete or limit what they can do with it.