HEY provides innovative email features but operates within a closed ecosystem. PDG Mail offers similar modern capabilities while maintaining full support for open standards like IMAP and JMAP, allowing you to use any email client while benefiting from enhanced privacy protection.
Key Differences
Both services provide modern email experiences, but with different approaches to user freedom:
- • HEY requires use of their proprietary applications
- • PDG Mail supports any standards-compliant email client
- • Both offer tracker blocking and privacy features
- • PDG Mail provides zero-knowledge encryption architecture
Export Process from HEY
HEY provides data export functionality that allows you to download your email archive and contact information in standard formats compatible with PDG Mail's import tools.
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Export Steps
- • Access Account Settings in HEY
- • Navigate to Forwarding/Leaving section
- • Request data export for emails (MBOX format)
- • Export contacts as vCard file
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Import to PDG Mail
- • Access PDG Mail Settings → Import
- • Upload MBOX file for email migration
- • Import vCard file for contacts
- • Verify data integrity and organization
Feature Comparison
PDG Mail provides comparable functionality to HEY's key features while maintaining open standards compatibility. Both services offer email tracking protection, though implementation methods differ.
Email Client Flexibility
Unlike HEY's requirement to use their applications, PDG Mail works with any email client that supports IMAP, JMAP, or SMTP protocols. This includes desktop applications like Outlook, Apple Mail, and Thunderbird, as well as mobile email clients.
Sender Management
While HEY provides a dedicated "screener" feature, PDG Mail offers robust filtering and rules-based organization that can achieve similar results. Users can create custom filters to manage incoming messages from new or unknown senders.
Privacy and Security Architecture
Both services emphasize privacy, but with different architectural approaches. PDG Mail implements zero-knowledge encryption where user data is encrypted in a manner that prevents service provider access, even under legal compulsion.
Zero-Knowledge Architecture
Zero-knowledge architecture means that even with full access to our servers, we cannot read your email content or decrypt your data without your explicit authorization.
Data Portability Considerations
Open standards support ensures that your data remains portable beyond PDG Mail. Should you choose to migrate to another service in the future, standard protocols like IMAP and JMAP facilitate straightforward data transfer without vendor lock-in.
Future Flexibility
Migrating from HEY to PDG Mail provides similar modern email capabilities while restoring user choice through open standards support. The transition maintains privacy protection while offering greater flexibility in email client selection and future data portability.