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Besides syncing to a device, inboxapp stores a copy of a person's mail data on the server side?


Yes, for caching+performance reasons.


Do you encrypt anything in that case? Or do things in such a way that no rogue employee of Inbox would be able to read someone's email?

I work with email currently, and one of the core mantras we have is that nobody should be able to read the email of someone who uses our service. It's such a personal thing with so much private information, that even the possibility of someone being able to do that (especially when there are more than a handful of us) is unpalatable to everyone here, to the point that we can't do common password recovery in order to keep that information private from us. I certainly hope you are/will take that into consideration as you build this.


> I work with email currently, and one of the core mantras we have is that nobody should be able to read the email of someone who uses our service.

Sounds wonderful. Where do you work?




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