Thoughts on use of another person’s email as a recovery option in Protonmail

Just remember that your encryption key for your Proton account is derived from your master password (unless you have also chosen to enable the 2nd password option). What that means is, that by using the recovery email option to enact a password reset won’t give you back access to the contents of your account ..unless you can somehow provide either the original recovery phrase or your old master password.

For that reason, I don’t even bother setting up email/phone recovery on my Proton account.

Bottom line : Make sure you have a way to access your recovery phrase in the event of any eventuality.