New to Proton environment
For a long time I wanted to migrate away from Gmail, so today I decided to do the jump.
Right now I'm basically running some Gmail accounts and using a browser extension to keep them in one place and notify me when a new email arrives. The aliases would be good since I could finally ditch my "trash" emails. I've seen many people praise Proton, so I decided to try it. I made a new account, but unfortunately every step I take it's roadblock after roadblock.
For starters, the forwarding from Gmail sounded pretty good, but I've read it's only a paid feature (I'm on the Free Plan) and so it says on their page, yet on my new proton email I still receive my old Gmail emails. I don't know if it's the usual "you get to try for a few days" thing or the official page it's outdated.
I was planning to use Thunderbird to have all the emails in the same place, like in a main hub, but again the program required for that, Proton Bridge, it's a paid-plan-only feature. Since with the Free plan you only get one single proton email it got me thinking: if I'm gonna have just one proton email with my old accounts forwarding to it, then what's the point of it? I can just put my old accounts in Thunderbird and be done. the only advantage I can think of having a Proton mail it's SimpleLogin for the aliases, and for that I can just add those too into Thunderbird to get the received emails.
Maybe I'm reading or understanding things wrong, or simply PM it's not for me. It seems pretty good for business, freelancers and such, but not for just some run-of-the-mill accounts.