Tuta Mail should not offer a free tier

Tuta user of several years, for anyone thinking of creating an account on there please heed this advice, it would save you frustration with email in the long run. Say you start amassing over 4,000 emails and want to search for something you got a month ago, what do you think Tuta is going to prompt you with? That’s right, upgrade to premium to be able to search past 30 days! they nerfed search capabilities past a month on their web version and desktop. It gets better though, say you want to export your full inbox, can’t do it from web, you have to download their desktop app. Okay, it’s downloaded what now? let’s go try and import that EML archive into Thunderbird, wait… doesn’t work. Thunderbird complains about no IMAP/POP protocols due to E2E. They’ve designed it in a way where it’s a pain to have a searchable inbox so that you upgrade. There is no other word for this than enshittification. This isn’t speaking to how slow search is on their web, again by design. Thanks Tuta, I guess? I now have a greppable EML archive to pour over when I simply want to search for an email from months ago.