
On the web, click the shield icon just above a message to the right to see if the platform has detected and blocked any trackers. Proton Mail will block these trackers by default. That information helps them assess the effectiveness of ad campaigns and understand more about customers, but you may well consider it an overreach in terms of your personal privacy. Many marketing companies will include trackers in their emails to see when you open a message and on what devices. Your contact will also be able to reply to the email directly, even without a Proton Mail account. They’ll get a link that will direct them to a secure page on the web and the message will appear only after they enter the password. Proton Mail will then ask you to enter the password required to unlock the message, plus an optional password hint.īecause the message is protected by a password, the recipient won’t be able to open it up like a regular email. If you want to make absolutely sure an email is only opened by the recipient, you can protect it with a password: In the compose window on the web or on mobile, click or tap the padlock icon at the bottom of the message. Select Compact, for example, to reduce the spacing between messages. Click the cog icon (top right), then choose Go to settings and Appearance to see the options.Īt the time of writing, you’ve got a choice of seven different color schemes to pick from, and a selection of layouts for the various different views in Proton Mail. There’s nothing bad about the default purple-and-white look of Proton Mail, but there are lots of ways to customize it on the web. To apply a label, select an email and then click or tap the label button on the toolbar at the top (web) or the bottom (mobile) of the screen-the button looks like a small luggage tag. They’re color coded for ease of reference and you can quickly get to them from the navigation bars inside the Proton Mail app.

You might have one label set up for work, for example, and one for anything to do with the kids.

The key difference is that a message can have multiple labels, but can only be in one folder at a time. Proton Mail gives you two different ways of grouping emails-labels and folders.
