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  • The emails are unencrypted, emails in transit are in transit between the e-mail servers and relays and use secure tls channels.
    They are only encrypted from your phone/notebook/browser to the server, then when send they will be encrypted till the next server.

    Every server/relay first decrypts everything send to it, because it has to due to the TLS terminating at each server.

    See also your source:

    Transport Encryption: This form of encryption is used to secure your emails while they are transmitted over the internet. Most of today’s email services, including Gmail, employ transport layer security (TLS) to protect emails in transit. While it encrypts emails between servers, it doesn’t protect the content once it reaches the recipient’s inbox.1

    In practical terms, Your e-mail server, your e-mail servers relay (if it has any) and your recipients relay server/server can all read your email unless

    End-to-End Encryption (E2EE): E2EE takes encryption a step further. It ensures that only the sender and the recipient can decrypt and read the emails. Even the email service provider cannot access the contents of the email. E2EE is typically achieved through third-party encryption tools or services.1

    Which takes active effort from both the sender and the recipient to make work - it’s almost only possible with people you know and little else.

    1 https://umatechnology.org/gmails-new-encryption-can-make-email-safer-heres-why-you-should-use-it/











  • I didn’t consider it as valid, one on (phone and internal nvme1), the second one on nvme2 and the third one in the cloud.

    Though I have only two copies of normal data myself, I consider live and cloud to be enough for most data. Everything very important has more backups in other ways (bitwarden has an exportable local version on every logged in device, images are stored in immich on my server making it 3 devices)


    • Maintain three (3) copies of your data: This includes the original data and at least two copies.
    • Use two (2) different types of media for storage: Store your data on two distinct forms of media to enhance redundancy.
    • Keep at least one (1) copy off-site: To ensure data safety, have one backup copy stored in an off-site location, separate from your primary data and on-site backups.

    You have 3 copies, one on your phone and nvme, one on the backup nvme and one in the cloud. You have 2 media, internal SSD and cloud (your phone would count as a third if it wasn’t auto synced) You have 1 off-site in the cloud