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[–] xylogx@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

“When you activate this feature, your latest Gmail messages will be imported into Proton Mail, so you have your recent conversations and updates right there with you. New emails received in your Gmail will then continue to appear in your Proton Mail inbox automatically.”

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is still confusing, do they mean that you can open other mailboxes on the proton mail app/web client? That would be nice if implemented well

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

you can now send emails from your Gmail address directly inside Proton Mail.

This is the big change. So far importing and setting up forwarding from Gmail was trivial. Sending from the Gmail address (including replying to an email sent to the Gmail address with the receiving address) was not possible without an email client with separate SMTP setup. And an email client coildn't be used without running IMAP bridge on your own machine, due to Proton's encryption. The ability to send from your Gmail address from Proton obviates all that.