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Have you ever had success with getting non-tech relatives to use OpenPGP? Every time I've tried they found it too confusing. Tuta is easier in that regard.
I haven't even tried to get non-tech relatives to use OpenPGP, not that I have email correspondence with them.
If you want them to use it the only way I can see it happening is if you can get them to agree to let you set it all up when you're all gathered together to celebrate something.
And don't expect them to use it outside of the contacts you've already imported keys for or to remember to keep their private keys in a backup. You'd be their IT Support + Backup plan for it to work.
My experience is that non-tech users aren't interested in paying monthly for an email solution when they get by just fine using outlook.com, gmail.com or whatever domain their ISPs free mail use. Not that they use it much - they stick to IMs like Messenger and Whatsapp with SMS as a fallback.
I find it too confusing and I consider myself incredibly tech literate.
That said, last I checked, once the email leaves the Tuta server, isn't it basically available for anyone to read? Isn't that by design of email.
IIRC, if you select to encrypt it, the receiver will get it encrypted and will need a password to decrypt it.