Hey everyone,
I have a free protonmail account for years now and will be losing access to my (main) university mail soon. My proton mail is filling up and I will need a reliable personal mail address going forward.
What is the current status with privacy oriented mail providers in the EU? I am willing to pay for my mail service but ideally not too much, protonmail is 4€/mo which is a bit much I think.
What is the general opinion now after some months on the protonmail ceo? Will the Swiss privacy laws cause issues soon? What about tuta and mailbox.org? I think I want to switch to my own domain soon so supporting custom domains is definitely something I look for. Also the ability to use imap and not have a separate app would be good.
Last time I checked half a year ago I found mailbox to be the best compromise but I decided it’s not worth the hassle yet to deal with my mail provider.
Mailbox.org works great with custom domains, not a single problem, most of the functions of larger providers.
Posteo really doesn’t get enough acknowledgment, in my opinion. They’re a great and secure email service that seems to fly under the radar for most people. I recommend checking them out.
More expensive than Tuta for a similar offering, but what’s nice with Posteo is you can have a really low lowest tier with €1/mo, if that’s all you need. 👍
I’m personally with Tuta.
The thing that put me off of Tuta is that you cannot use it with any other mail client (like Thunderbird, for example).
That would be nice indeed. They do have their own desktop client, but it should be possible to connect to their servers with some kind of add-on or something. That would be awesome.
Like you I looked for an alternative to Proton and I’ve been using tuta for a couple of years now as my main mail. You can create aliases with your own custom domain. My only non important complaint is that you can’t use other email clients (Thunderbird, K-9), due to their encryption I guess. They are also fairly active in Mastodon.
Custom domain is free on tuta??
I don’t think so and the comment didn’t state that either, but you can use your own domain if you pay
Yeah you can’t use it with Thunderbird due to the nature of end to end encryption indeed.
But see also https://tuta.com/blog/2fa-desktop-clients
I pay for Proton and I’m very happy with it. I think they need Contact phone integration but otherwise rock solid products. I don’t like the CEO, but generally I hate them all, so I try not to think about that. Their full suite of products has treated me well for a few years now.
Not at all saying the alternatives aren’t better, just sharing my experience.
If you want mail with encryption, Tuta or Proton are your choices.
If you don’t care about encryption then pretty much anything with claims of privacy is going to be pretty well the same.
The are a lot of options with encryption apart from Tuta and Proton.
Then please share a few. No point in disagreeing with me without providing some names and URLs, otherwise what’s the point?
I’m referring to encryption at the provider level, not the client. I’m sure other options exist, but nobody seems to bother mentioning any of them.
I’m saddened that you think me pointing out there are other options is “disagreeing”. I’m just offering the insight to readers of your comment that there are other options.
It’s not difficult to find, if you just search for “email provider with encryption” or similar. Pick your favorite.
The point I was making was that people shouldn’t feel like there are only two options. 🙂 Please don’t take that as me disagreeing with you personally.
I’m referring to encryption at the provider level
So was I. 👍
