On 20 May 2026, our founder Boris Siegenthaler transferred the majority of Infomaniak’s voting rights to a Swiss public-interest foundation: the Infomaniak Foundation.
I switched to Infomaniak when I first started seriously migrating away from gmail. I found it a really clean and almost too good to be true, email is fundamentally un-private and IK seemed like a great balance. Also all their apps were open source and on fdroid! Wow!
I was disappointed to see them take a stance against Swiss encryption law, which ultimately made me stick with Proton (also not perfect, but who specifically took the opposite side of this proposal). This issue seemed to be at the core of what I expected from a privacy focused email provider.
What really made me upset was that when I then tried to leave Infomaniak I found that they lock email forwarding behind a paywall (something not even Google does). It actually became very difficult to leave the small number of services I had migrated over to, and I still have my ikmail in my client by necessity.
This is definitely a positive change. I want to take them seriously and more competition in the relatively private non-American email space is good. But I am still hesitant to reccomend or embrace them. Would be curious to hear anyone else’s thoughts?
I wish I switched to these guys when I left google. I chose a large provider in India because I just wanted to support them.
But I did not realise that the Indian government has gone so fascist that they are even ahead of USA, and far more authoritarian than Britain.
It took over a year to get everyone to switch to my new email address so I can’t really ask this of people again. But I’ll suggest it to others who are looking for recommendations.
This is why a bought a domain. I’m going to do a similar change, but I hope it’s forever.
I think countries should have a free domains for normal people to do the same, and prevent these companies from having power over something that’s basically a utility and necessity, based on a decision you made once in your life when you were 13.
Yes, someone did suggest this to me at the time but it was too much for me then to figure out DKIM, DMARC and SPF then. Not something the average person can do.
Nations providing free (or at least consistent) domains is an excellent idea.
Switched 5 years ago. Was a good move. For $16/year, you can’t go wrong.
This is awesome! Infomaniak is great!
@_elena@mastodon.social This might interest you.
Sweet, I use them for my domain name. If Runbox ever dies I’d move email over too.
Great news also thinking of my own email hosting with these guys
