It’s me again with another question for recommendation 🙈 This time I am searching for a new Email-Provider:

Currently I am using mailbox.org (privacy-friendly provider based in Germany). Since my subscription is comming to an end there, I tought about switching to proton mail-plus. What I like about them is, that they have an easy way of creating alias-emails and also support the option to use your own domain.

But maybe you gals and guys have another great provider which offers good features for a good price.

Also: I dont need Cloud-Storage or anything like that, so just mail is fine.

Thx in regards :)

  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    they have an easy way of creating alias-emails

    With mailbox.org and other normal mail providers you should just be able to set a catch-all address, then you don’t have to create aliases at all, just type “whatever-you-want@mydomain.com

    If an email provider charges you more to create ‘aliases’ run far away and pick something else.

    I wouldn’t switch to Proton personally, they require that you use their own apps or use an IMAP bridge which doesn’t work on Android/iOS. Their ecosystem feels very restrictive.

    I don’t see the point of an encrypted email provider like Proton, since 99% of the emails we all receive aren’t encrypted anyways, and sending encrypted emails only easily works to other proton mail users.

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    2 months ago

    Just a reminder: with Proton you can’t use IMAP for your email client, you either need their mail client (mobile) or bridge app (desktop).

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      2 months ago

      While technically true, bridge is ultimately an IMAP server you run yourself … and they do have good reasons for this design.

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          2 months ago

          Imap and end to end encryption are not possible at the same time.

          Bridge exposes an IMAP interface but encrypts everything as Proton would, had you used the web client.

          It solves a technical limitation.