Reporting back!
This just looks “normal” with a line in the web user interface that says these messages are end-to-end encrypted.
This just looks “normal” too.
From the non-tutanota receiver side: I got an email with a link. Here’s the default text, which appears to be “white-label”-able in Tutanota settings…
Hello,
You have just received a confidential email via Tutanota (https://tutanota.com). Tutanota encrypts emails automatically end-to-end, including all attachments. You can reach your encrypted mailbox and also reply with an encrypted email with the following link:
[Show encrypted email](link here)
Or paste this link into your browser:
link hereThis email was automatically generated for sending the link. The link stays valid until you receive a new confidential email from me.
Kind regards,
(sender’s name)
Clicking on the link brings me to a webpage that asks for a password. On mobile web, after I entered the password and tapped next, I got a page that was loading forever sadly, so it didn’t work. On my lappy in my browser (Brave), it did take a while to load but it eventually loaded a “mini” or “lite” version of the tutanota web interface, not just a page with the message. It was complete with “inbox,” “drafts,” “sent,” and “trash” folders. I could not write a new mail–I could only reply to the existing mail. I could not edit the “to” field, but I could edit the subject field.
I wonder what the message looks like on the Tutanota user’s side? Does it look like any other email in their inbox? Answer: yes.
When the Tutanota user sends a reply, it generates a new identical email to the recipient’s non-Tuta email address, with a new link (as it said it would). The old link did become invalid!
I left the web interface open, and when trashHeap sent me a new mail as part of the same thread, I actually got the new email without having to click on the link and enter our agreed-upon password again. That’s pretty cool.