Please suggest a good and relatively affordable private email provider. I am considering tuta, mailbox right now. I know proton has gone rogue.
I cannot self host one and the email provider must be somewhat reputable as I will be using this for my work portfolio. Anything with €1-€3 per month is encouraged.
proton works, idc what one of the 5 owners say, it is impossible to avoid that type of people
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People keep posting this, like some kind of biased blog post on medium is supposed to be a gotcha moment that fixes everything. It doesn’t.
Posteo ftw!
Posteo. Seems like it’s missing love here. Simple, out of the way, it just works.
I would happily consider Posteo but the fact that they don’t support custom domains is a deal breaker for me. That said, using an email aliasing service in front of it could be a solution.
If - for any reason - I want to move email providers, I don’t want to change my email everywhere.
I’ve been using Inbox.eu, provider from Latvia, for a few years now, specifically with my own domain. Was pretty easy to setup, and the support was also good when I messed up some DNS settings.
Fastmail has been treating me well. Unlimited aliases and masked emails are really the only features I use, but it’s got sort of the classic suite of productivity tools you’d expect. I self host equivalents of these, but for a drop in replacement for most of the g-suite it’s good without trying to be more than it needs to be.
It’s great except it’s hosted in Australia. Not really privacy focused.
Yeah fair. A big part of my interest in it is that it split from Opera Software through a staff buyout, which to me says the people working there and maintaining it care a touch more than some companies. From the literature I consumed when signing up they seemed very privacy forward, and as a Proton VPN user I didn’t want all my eggs in one basket should Proton turn out to be a honeypot. That all being said, I agree with your point that they are subject to a legal system that doesn’t put users first compared to other countries, though for anything really sensitive I’m not really sure I would be using email to begin with, particularly not one I use for general clear net personal communication like banking and such.
100%, like you said, email isn’t really made for private communications. Even with me calling it out as not private, I do use fastmail as my main provider and like it.
I’m using Posteo and have no reason to complain about anything. It pretty much just works. Few bells and whistles.
I can second Posteo. Functional, affordable, FOSS, ecological and private enough for my needs.
Do you use your custom domain or their own domain?
Afaik they don’t offer to use a custom domain.
Tuta, Proton, Murena, Nextcloud Mail, or use disposable mails like Maildrop or Altmails.
Tuta. Regardless of email provider, chose one that lets you use your own domain - that way it’s easier to change providers.
I strongly recommend this as well. Swapped to Tuta and my own domain after leaving Proton. Having a domain for future moves is huge, I wish I had considered it sooner.
oh yeah, I have my own domain since Uhm 2004 and have switched providers about, hm, six times without problems. I never delete emails either (spam I do) and just use Thunderbird’s drag and drop to move MA mails from one server to another.
I like to dish out advice without actually following it.
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Proton lets you do that too.
I’ve been using Tuta for several years now, I didn’t know I could use my own domain!
Paid tiers only i think, but yes.
I am a paid tier… and I have my own business… this is really something I need to do.
Do it. It’s very straightforward.
- Buy a domain.
- Edit the DNS records to make your provider work with your domain.
- In Tuta (or even an alias service like Addy), create new emails using your custom domain.
- Done.
Whenever you need to switch providers such as if Tuta decides to support fascism like Proton’s CEO, you can easily switch to a new provider. Then add your domain to the provider, update your DNS records to point to your new provider, click Save. Done. And you won’t have to change your email addresses ever again.
This is amazing, thank you
I’ve been using mailbox.org for a couple of years now (a full switch from gmail to make sure I hadn’t left anything over took me about a year), and I’m very happy with the service, can wholeheartedly recommend.
Email isn’t private. It was designed to be robust not private. Encryption never really caught on; and your counterparties using Gmail or some Microsoft server in the background will kill any expectation of privacy you might have.
WW II’s Gordon Welchman is worth reading about. Similar nasty end as Turing. Not as well known as Turing but a similar contribution before the encryption was actually solved.
Have used Zoho for decades. Dozen domains, three/four actual accounts. Don’t seem to have had any issues with them selling my info - use them with Addy.io. I don’t gain anything from this reference/comment.
I am using startmail at the moment with a custom domainand am pleased but I do plan on migrating due to the cost for adding more mailboxes. So I am reading along here but from my research recently I personally also found Tuta attractive along with mailbox for their price and feature set. What has proton done by the way? I have never really trusted the organization but has something happened recently?
Proton’s CEO seems to be a right-wing jackass.
I’m also looking to migrate and was recommended this service when I asked a similar question to OP. https://www.migadu.com/index.html
Unlimited inboxes. You’re just limited to inbox space, but you can have multiple domains.
I’ll be moving over to them when my current subscription runs out with my current provider
Proton’s CEO turned out to be a Trumper with a Nazi dogwhistle username and a lot of Republican buzzwords peppering his vocabulary. Lots of people are defending Proton anyway because of sunk cost fallacy.
Been using Mailbox for years without any issue. German reliability. But the fact that one of Proton’s directors revealed that he agrees with 75 million Americans does not mean that a whole company, based in Switzerland and with many other stakeholders, has “gone rogue”. I’m not getting into a new fight about this here but I really think American progressives need to drop this religious approach to dissent and heterodoxy and just relax a little. It will be okay.
Are you kidding me right now? You call a fascist takeover a bit of “dissent” that we need to “relax a little” about?
You think the CEO of a privacy company coming out in support of a dictator who wants to erode rights and abolish privacy laws, and believes in jailing dissenters, to not have gone rogue?
We literally have American citizens being sent to an offshore military concentration camp so their lawful rights can be waived, and you think that’s okay?!
It was the company’s official stance per their official social media account. Not just the CEO/one board member.
It was the company’s official stance
The CEO is a big enough douche that I’ll not migrate to them.
It was a stunt, by an idiot to try to gain favor with trump. He was probably trying for a cabinet position in his tech bro circle. If it’s his intent, and he owns majority share, it’s their intent.
If he doesn’t own a majority share, they’re all complicit
When PR rolled in to wash out the stain, he just ran is mouth about not being political, even though he was literally just political.
As far as the company goes, they outed an Activist, so they’re not privacy first. They’ll sell you up the river in a second if someone with any power or money asks.
They’re private enough not to sell your data/eyes like google/microsoft (for now). I suspect if sony starts going after torrenters in this new world order we’ve got brewing, they wouldn’t hesitate to out you.
Tutanota, startmail, protonmail, etc.
Another mailbox.org user here. I did the same switch as @caravaggio@feddit.nl around the same time and I can highly recommend as well. Setting up custom domains is also not hard and well documented in their knowledge-base. I am also using it for calendars and contacts with no issues at all. A plus of their premium (3€/month) plan, apart from custom domains, is that you have access to a series of other things (appointments, videoconferencing etc.) which are a nice thing to have if you need them (as an occasional teacher in academia I enjoyed having the options, especially since I could avoid Google/Microsoft stuff).
The only annoying thing is how they handle 2fa login on their website. I rarely need to login, but when I do I always suffer.
Did you try the new 2FA experience they have in beta? https://mailbox.org/en/post/beta-program-starts
Proton has not gone rogue.
The only thing that turns people off is that they cooperate with governments. Well, if you’re using it for your business you shouldn’t worry about that unless it’s illegal business, at which point you have bigger problems
They dont “cooperate with governments”, they follow the laws they legally have to. All the cases I can think of where they gave info to a government with a legal order to do so, they gave information that has to be logged in order for the system to work and the subjects themselves used poor opsec eg: their real names for accounts and recovery emails…
Some privacy extremists have unrealistic expectations when they sign up to these things without fully understanding how it works and then blame the provider for something they were completely transparent about from the beginning.
You’re right, they got called out as a “honeypot” for basic KYC and not having E2EE (which you can’t with email AFAIK)
