you can now send emails from your Gmail address directly inside Proton Mail.
This is the big change. So far importing and setting up forwarding from Gmail was trivial. Sending from the Gmail address (including replying to an email sent to the Gmail address with the receiving address) was not possible without an email client with separate SMTP setup. And an email client coildn’t be used without running IMAP bridge on your own machine, due to Proton’s encryption. The ability to send from your Gmail address from Proton obviates all that.
This is the big change. So far importing and setting up forwarding from Gmail was trivial. Sending from the Gmail address (including replying to an email sent to the Gmail address with the receiving address) was not possible without an email client with separate SMTP setup. And an email client coildn’t be used without running IMAP bridge on your own machine, due to Proton’s encryption. The ability to send from your Gmail address from Proton obviates all that.