

“SimpleLogin will continue working as a separate service, and the SimpleLogin team will continue building new features and adding functionality but now with the benefit of Proton’s infrastructure and security engineering capabilities.” “If you already use SimpleLogin with ProtonMail, things will continue to work the same as before,” he says. Proton will also be maintaining SimpleLogin as a separate service, per Yen.

Proton’s plan is to more deeply integrate SimpleLogin functionality into ProtonMail - meaning its wider user base will be able to hide their email addresses using SimpleLogin without having to sign up separately for the latter service. “ProtonMail protects your data privacy with encryption, while SimpleLogin prevents malicious actors from discovering your actual email address by hiding your email.” “SimpleLogin is a complementary service to ProtonMail,” he adds. Then, utilize the “Forgot Password” link on the “Decrypt Mailbox” screen and proceed with the remaining steps as usual.In a blog post announcing the acquisition, Proton’s founder and CEO Andy Yen also flags the overlap, writing: “We have been following SimpleLogin closely for a long time as many ProtonMail users utilize it to prevent their ProtonMail addresses from being leaked to spammers.” Is the two-password mode being used? Log in using your account password to change your mailbox password. Visit and click the “Get help” option under the “Login” button if you need to change your account password. This approach is predicated on the notion that you configured a recovery email when you created your ProtonMail account. Reset Your ProtonMail Password via Recovery Email Although you won’t be able to read the message body or access attachments, you will still be able to see unencrypted information like the sender, subject line, and metadata. If you remember it afterward, you can retrieve the decryption key and regain access to your previous emails.Ĭhanging your password will render prior emails unreadable, regardless of your password setting.

You won’t be able to see your old emails after changing the password used to unlock your mailbox. If you’re using two passwords, switching either of them will force you to use one password. Regardless of the method, you’re using, ProtonMail does not have access to any of your passwords. You have a password for logging in (your account password) and another for decrypting your inbox when using two-password mode (your mailbox password). The login and inbox decryption passwords are the same in single-password mode. You won’t need to worry about this if you haven’t activated the two-password mode because you’ll be utilizing the single-password mode that is set by default. ProtonMail offers a single-password mode and a two-password mode for password protection.
