The service is absolutely free. That feature is not.
Local and offline desktop mail clients in 2023 are now niche features, especially when the service we are discussing gives you a super solid webUI and mobile apps (which also work offline). The rain why Protonmail has this as a paid feature is because only a small subset of it’s users even need this as a feature, and it requires a special network bridge to make possible.
Then pay for it if that’s a feature you want. They make a product, and want to get paid for it.
I meant that with the free tier lacking such a basic and necessary feature, you cannot really say the service is “free”.
The service is absolutely free. That feature is not.
Local and offline desktop mail clients in 2023 are now niche features, especially when the service we are discussing gives you a super solid webUI and mobile apps (which also work offline). The rain why Protonmail has this as a paid feature is because only a small subset of it’s users even need this as a feature, and it requires a special network bridge to make possible.