Okay, which email service now?
from KingDingbat@lemmy.world to privacy@lemmy.ml on 06 Nov 06:45
https://lemmy.world/post/54050486
from KingDingbat@lemmy.world to privacy@lemmy.ml on 06 Nov 06:45
https://lemmy.world/post/54050486
Okay, so I tried Tuta and found the UI clunky and buggy. I tried Mailbox.org and their billing is a mess and they took my money without crediting the account. *(I have a pending ticket, we’ll see what they said.)
I do have a proton mail account, but I haven’t given them $ yet because of… well you know. Sadly, out of the three I’ve tried their product is the best.
Wondering what to check out next. I really want to ditch the G but I’m evaluating services before I jump off the ledge this time.
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Posteo?
Posteo.
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It doesn’t look bad but 3 aliases free and no custom domain AFAIK
Yeah, that was the deal breaker for me too
I decided to go with the custom domain route and I’m still transitioning from SimpleLogin aliases to my own domain. I need domain support
If you can’t find a better email service, I’d recommend using addy.io for aliasing.
I Had No issues with Mailbox. I think it will be resolved Just fine in your favour
I am Happy With their product. Maybe you experienced a hiccup.
The fact that I have to process a manual payment every month is pretty bad. Also, they just seem to have issues with most American debit or credit cards - I could only get one to work without “Unknown Error” every time. Then the billing error where I paid, received 3 separate confirmation emails and 3 days later they restricted my account for non payment.
Ah okay. I didn’t know that. I paid for a whole year, but I’m living in the EU where the acceptance of some pay methods might be easier
You don’t have to do a monthly manual payment, I buy a few years at a time (USA) an they email me when it’s getting low. Not sure what billing issues you’re seeing but that sounds v annoying
wait for it, another new one that isn’t corrupt (yet) will spring up any time now to keep a protocol that was never private and by all rights should be left to die, alive.
I dunno, I think it’s pretty good.
I use Posteo, but Thundermail seems okay (if you can overlook Mozilla).
besides taking money from Google, is there other issues with Mozilla?
They seem pretty down with AI, they lay off their employees way more than they should, and they leech off of open-source contributions.
It may be a non-profit, but the people in charge of it seem suspiciously wealthy.
mailcow.email – they have a SaaS offering at servercow.de or you can have someone else host it. I’m at administrieren.net, another very small German provider.
Fastmail
Using it for 2 or so years now, never had problems
if you’re okay with their price, mxroute seems good to me. i just use disroot mail though.
Soverin
Buy a personal domain with mythic beasts and use their default settings to set it up as a mailbox, then connect to it with Thunderbird
I self host but I used namecheap’s private email before and it was fine: www.namecheap.com/hosting/email/
Namecheap has gotten into hot water for some israel stuff
I hadn’t heard of this, reading about it now. If you’re referring to the same thing, it seems they refused DNS service for a website that hosted videos showing extreme violence, because it violated their ToS. If they really did not release the domain immediately, that’s a bit questionable, but personally I don’t think it’s a big scandal or anything, as far as tech companies go.
If proton works great for you, use it. But stay alert.
Otherwise, i would give tuta a chance. There’s also infomaniak.
Fastmail. They do just mail and aren’t attempting to be a full Google Suite replacement.
Been there for almost a decade with zero issues.
Fastmail has servers in the US, which is not great for privacy. Even if you use their EU server there’s still a copy of your data in the US:
Still better than what the Proton CEO is doing.
The laid off a bunch of workers trying to start a union
I like migadu.com. Not sure why it’s never recommended. OK, the UI is outdated, but i rarely have to go there anyway. Been using it for 2-3 years now, not a single hiccup yet.
AFAIK you can find Email clients in Alternetiveto
I use Fastmail with my own domain. It’s great.
Given that it’s November, if you aren’t in a hurry you might want to check whether whatever provider you decide to go with had a Black Friday sale last year. I wouldn’t let a sale be a deciding factor on what to use, but if a service you want to try is likely to have a sale in a few weeks you may as well wait.