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I understand your frustration, but it sounds to me like your business case isn’t what Proton was created for.

IMHO, Proton is meant to keep conversations completely private between recipients. I’m more surprised that you can still access a former employee’s email at all.

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They paid for the account in the name of their company, for company uses, with company money. If that's not account ownership then please define what is.

I’m not disagreeing. Just saying I would have expected Proton to side with the individual users of the account over who paid for it. Not saying I’m right, just that I’m surprised to hear that’s not the case.

We support both, it's possible to have private subusers as well (that the account owner can't access the contents of).

That's not how Proton works. If you have an organization, you have complete control over all the accounts. I can reset passwords for any email address in my organization and read all their email if I were so inclined. He's not talking about individual accounts which are how you describe it.

For non-private subusers, you're right, but for private subusers, you can only read new emails after resetting the keys, you can't read existing emails. I.e. you can take control over the email address, but not access existing data.

right, if you allow private sub users.

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