I’ve been wanting to move on from gmail for a while now, thought about self hosting but I’m afraid I won’t have the time or ability to keep it running well for a long period of time. Which service would you guys recommend? I’m not an avid email user, I basically just sign up to websites and send support emails once in a while.
I totally recommend tutanota. I use the free.
Can I ask how you deal with it? Free tutanota lacks even the most basic features i.e. offline mode/search. I switched to proton after a month, it was infuriating
Proton has a great free tier that may work well for you. I’ve used them for a while now and it’s been great. They have what is probably the most feature-complete private email service out there (unless I’m forgetting something). The main nitpick I have with them is how little they focus on Linux, but that applies more for their other services than email.
Proton, Tutonota, or Disroot
Proton. Free tier is fine. Consider using your own domain, cost a few dollars extra.
Yes, 4,99€ per month when one pays by month.
Check out Posteo.
I really enjoy https://mailbox.org, their custom software can be… esoteric at times, but the company and privacy commitments are top notch, and it has PGP built throughout natively, including an option to automatically PGP encrypt all plaintext emails you receive. I joined it originally as a cheaper alternative to Protonmail but these days I really prefer it.
Also, you can give it out email aliases for work or to other people without giving away that you’re actually a conspiracy nut and privacy enjoyer. Much better when it’s @mailbox rather than @tutanota or @protonmail
Or you can also not care what other people think. I think
proton.mesounds pretty cool. I’m a physicist too so it kinda makes sense. Tutanota allows quite a few short domains;tuta.iosounds a bit funny but it’s short enough to not be strange.When I am forced to give my email for electronic receipts in shops though…it’s a full on
{shop_name}@handle.anonaddy.me. No issues or weird looks so far.
I tried it but the design just wasn’t mine. I switched to protonmail then and it’s a great value for the money. Vpn, password manager, files, mail, calender(, contacts)
I’m a proton unlimited subscriber and it comes with proton vpn and simplelogin premium on top of the 500GB email inbox. I’m very satisfied with it. Signing up for lots of things with email aliases from simplelogin is very convenient and useful for cleaning your inbox of spam
Same here but I’m using Firefox Relay instead of simple login. Will check that one out though.
I’ve made the switch from relay to proton pass aliases. It’s great but with relay you can block spam which is not sth that you’ll get with proton pass
fastmail
I’m a Protonmail user (on a paid plan) and like it. The bridge application works decently well on Linux with my desktop mail client. Their 24 month billing plan makes it $3.5/month.
I’m surprised no one’s posted about Skiff.
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Well, you know, e-mail gives you complete privacy only in special cases. There is a reddit’s comments thread about this. Non-gmail e-mail is only needed to avoid monitoring by the mail service provider.
TL;DR If you need complete privacy of communication, use Matrix-based software with your own server located in a neutral country.
+1 on Skiff. E2EE intra- and inbound. Great service, greater support. Free custom domains setup (& catchall aliasing!!!). Comes with a Drive, Pages, and Calendar suite.
Got excited and then immediately sad while reading they were involved in crypto.
Skiff uses discord, so… idk what I think of that, they also lack support for pgp and are in the us afaik
Do they provide SMTP? So that I can use it in a Wordpress instance?
No SMTP or IMAP as it’s an E2EE service and unlike Proton they don’t (yet anyway) have a “bridge” service. You get to use your own domain, a handful of aliases, and a generous amount of storage all on the free plan with higher limits on the paid plans.
Anyone looking for standard mail protocol support and gobs of storage for free/cheap and who are cool with a very non-sexy 90s web UI, would do well to check out the European provider mail.ee . They’ve been reliable for me over the past year or so though I’m not exactly a high-volume customer.
I use proton and absolutely love it!
Proton Mail
I use Migadu but you need your own domain for that and also it is paid.
I also switched to Migadu recently, because Mailbox.org removed support for own domains from their cheapest package. Good experience (so far) with both.
Have a look at Autistici which includes free alias addresses.
If you want your own domain name (i.e. yourname@yourbusiness.com) you can buy it from namecheap or godaddy. Then you can set it up for free on Zohomail. Its what I did for my small business
I’ve been using Fastmail for almost a decade now, and extremely satisfied by the service, privacy, features and price.
If you’re interested in signing up for it, I have a referral link (the above one isn’t it, I’m not that shady) you can use for a 10% discount on your first year.
Good luck with the search.
