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Recommend using the email provider's client #434
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I think it's a good idea to recommend using your email provider's client, as this minimizes trust. Whereas, using an email client by someone other than your email provider means you are trusting both your email provider and the email client's developer |
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This can work both ways and isn't really necessary for email clients with open protocols. A third party client may actually increase security. For example if I used Thunderbird, it would be impossible for Protonmail to "put a backdoor" into my PGP encryption code as they do not control the Thunderbird codebase. Therefore we're unlikely to set such a requirement as it doesn't make much sense in any threat model. |
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This can work both ways and isn't really necessary for email clients with open protocols.
A third party client may actually increase security. For example if I used Thunderbird, it would be impossible for Protonmail to "put a backdoor" into my PGP encryption code as they do not control the Thunderbird codebase.
Therefore we're unlikely to set such a requirement as it doesn't make much sense in any threat model.