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Looking for Thoughts on Email (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by paranoidandroid42@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Looking to leave GMAIL and am currently testing Proton for a $1 a month. So far it's pretty good and the issue I have is not with Proton, but with who I'm sending messages to. If I send an email to a gmail account my information is still sitting on a Google server. So is Proton worth it? Is something like Fastmail just as good over all due to how email works? With Fastmail I can get email for my whole family for $14 a month. I won't have the VPN, ProtonPASS and other Proton apps, but are they worth the $12 a month for one person?

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[–] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Not sure if this helps you, but here's my experience with email providers.

After leaving gmail, I went to proton, was a paid user of proton for 2 years. I left it for a few reasons, the major one was lack of linux support in their services, like no drive app, late updates, even in VPN app. Some other small reasons were that it didn't allow many custom domains, harder/complicated SMTP, since I like using Thunderbird. Later, I felt I am paying too much since I don't need a lot of these services.

Now, I am using mailbox.org with a €3 plan. I manage my own encryption keys. This means I cannot use the webUI, and I can only access my email on devices where those keys are stored. For my use case, this is really good. I can get so many aliases, I can connect so many custom domains. Considering it just as an email service, it is a lot cheaper than others.

[–] chrand@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

+1 for mailbox.org so far so good, managing own encryption key is a plus

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

+1 for mailbox.org