Recommended me a good private email provider
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https://mxroute.com/ if you need many different domains and email addresses but don't need a huge amount of space, very cheap and just works.
But if you have issues the guys who run it are quite rough and brutal, so support wil be tough on you and expect you know a lot about protocols, etc.
I second mxroute. They are solid
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I strongly recommend this as well. Swapped to Tuta and my own domain after leaving Proton. Having a domain for future moves is huge, I wish I had considered it sooner.
I like to dish out advice without actually following it.
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https://mxroute.com/ if you need many different domains and email addresses but don't need a huge amount of space, very cheap and just works.
But if you have issues the guys who run it are quite rough and brutal, so support wil be tough on you and expect you know a lot about protocols, etc.
can you expand on the guys being rough & brutal? can’t find anything about that in a search.
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I've been using mailbox.org for a couple of years now (a full switch from gmail to make sure I hadn't left anything over took me about a year), and I'm very happy with the service, can wholeheartedly recommend.
But they re-register emails
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can you expand on the guys being rough & brutal? can’t find anything about that in a search.
First hint is already on the FrontPage:
We do expect you to understand how to use email and how to configure your DNS to use our service
Second hint, the very aggressive way their documentation is written with big font, repeating and slight threats. See https://mxroutedocs.com/dns/dnsrecords/
Third one, their refund policy in the FAQs:
We do not offer refunds. Please do not sign up unless you are comfortable with your choice.
And there are quite many people writing about their encounters online with them, like:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/webhosting/comments/rbwqew/mxroute_are_they_rude_on_purpose_whats_been_your/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/mxroute/comments/1b1nk52/one_of_the_worst_service/
And so on. If you can handle working in open source you can handle them too. They are very direct which is off putting for some people, but they care deeply about their customers.
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This might make you feel better, it did for me:
Unfortunately, several of his conclusions are drawn from either errors or outright lies, or simply things being swept aside. Several of his later posts are ignored, as is the amount he doubled down. Him using the official proton accounts to call his statements the official proton stance is waved away. It basically only examines the cleaned up, shiny final version of events proton would like you to pretend happened after they deleted everything, instead of what actually happened. Worse, it pretends that was the only chain of events that happened. It's straight up gaslighting.
It's a very, very biased article that doesn't even attempt to do any kind of deep analysis and just tries to justify its stance by cherry picking, instead of actually looking at the facts and coming to a conclusion from there.
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I am using startmail at the moment with a custom domainand am pleased but I do plan on migrating due to the cost for adding more mailboxes. So I am reading along here but from my research recently I personally also found Tuta attractive along with mailbox for their price and feature set.
What has proton done by the way? I have never really trusted the organization but has something happened recently?Proton's CEO turned out to be a Trumper with a Nazi dogwhistle username and a lot of Republican buzzwords peppering his vocabulary. Lots of people are defending Proton anyway because of sunk cost fallacy.
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It was the company’s official stance per their official social media account. Not just the CEO/one board member.
It was the company’s official stance
The CEO is a big enough douche that I'll not migrate to them.
It was a stunt, by an idiot to try to gain favor with trump. He was probably trying for a cabinet position in his tech bro circle. If it's his intent, and he owns majority share, it's their intent.
If he doesn't own a majority share, they're all complicit
When PR rolled in to wash out the stain, he just ran is mouth about not being political, even though he was literally just political.
As far as the company goes, they outed an Activist, so they're not privacy first. They'll sell you up the river in a second if someone with any power or money asks.
They're private enough not to sell your data/eyes like google/microsoft (for now). I suspect if sony starts going after torrenters in this new world order we've got brewing, they wouldn't hesitate to out you.
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It does make me feel a little better, but the fact that they doubled down and hasn't gone out to clarify make me really disappointed. Because they are a non profit foundation makes it a bit more secure also.
In 2020, Proton complied with over 3,000 data orders from Swiss courts
That's not secure.
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As legally required. Any company that wants to operate aboveboard needs to comply with local law - that includes Proton.
Any company that wants to operate aboveboard needs to comply with local law
That's why you don't run a secure email/vpn company from a country that's shit for privacy laws.
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I like to dish out advice without actually following it.
Me to a depressed internet stranger: "Life is worth living"
Also me: Want to end my life every day
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proton works, idc what one of the 5 owners say, it is impossible to avoid that type of people
They are technically not "owners" they are members of a "Board of Trustees" of a non-profit organization (the Proton Foundation). They are legally bound by Swiss law to uphold their organzation's goals of fighting for privacy rights.
But yea, Andy Yen's statements is quite concerning nonetheness, and its red flags.
I means its not like doomsday level situation that you have to drop everything you're doing and migrate, but its a good idea to pre-emptively move anyways, before he goes full elon.
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If you're breaking the law to such an extent that the Swiss government compels Proton to log your IP address, you can use Tor as Proton recommends for that exact use case.
Switzerland is not in the EU.
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Please suggest a good and relatively affordable private email provider. I am considering tuta, mailbox right now. I know proton has gone rogue.
I cannot self host one and the email provider must be somewhat reputable as I will be using this for my work portfolio. Anything with €1-€3 per month is encouraged.
Tuta, Proton, Murena, Nextcloud Mail, or use disposable mails like Maildrop or Altmails.
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I am using startmail at the moment with a custom domainand am pleased but I do plan on migrating due to the cost for adding more mailboxes. So I am reading along here but from my research recently I personally also found Tuta attractive along with mailbox for their price and feature set.
What has proton done by the way? I have never really trusted the organization but has something happened recently? -
They are technically not "owners" they are members of a "Board of Trustees" of a non-profit organization (the Proton Foundation). They are legally bound by Swiss law to uphold their organzation's goals of fighting for privacy rights.
But yea, Andy Yen's statements is quite concerning nonetheness, and its red flags.
I means its not like doomsday level situation that you have to drop everything you're doing and migrate, but its a good idea to pre-emptively move anyways, before he goes full elon.
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Switzerland is not in the EU.
They have extremely similar laws in Switzerland
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First hint is already on the FrontPage:
We do expect you to understand how to use email and how to configure your DNS to use our service
Second hint, the very aggressive way their documentation is written with big font, repeating and slight threats. See https://mxroutedocs.com/dns/dnsrecords/
Third one, their refund policy in the FAQs:
We do not offer refunds. Please do not sign up unless you are comfortable with your choice.
And there are quite many people writing about their encounters online with them, like:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/webhosting/comments/rbwqew/mxroute_are_they_rude_on_purpose_whats_been_your/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/mxroute/comments/1b1nk52/one_of_the_worst_service/
And so on. If you can handle working in open source you can handle them too. They are very direct which is off putting for some people, but they care deeply about their customers.
Their response from the second Reddit post:
When you sent spam from your service in May of 2023, we asked you not to make us regret giving you a second chance. [...]
When you sent more spam on February 24 of 2024, we considered both interactions in our decision to terminate your account. [...]
Don't take my word for it, you already made the logs public so here's the spam you sent from our service:Unironically the best advertising possible for their service. If they're being rude to those who deserve it, let it bang!
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Been using Mailbox for years without any issue. German reliability. But the fact that one of Proton's directors revealed that he agrees with 75 million Americans does not mean that a whole company, based in Switzerland and with many other stakeholders, has "gone rogue". I'm not getting into a new fight about this here but I really think American progressives need to drop this religious approach to dissent and heterodoxy and just relax a little. It will be okay.
Have they resolved the slow loading and downtime to issues? I used them last year but the initial loading time was slow (I'm in the USA), and I had a few times over the span of a month or so where the page just didn't load for a few hours.
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Unfortunately, several of his conclusions are drawn from either errors or outright lies, or simply things being swept aside. Several of his later posts are ignored, as is the amount he doubled down. Him using the official proton accounts to call his statements the official proton stance is waved away. It basically only examines the cleaned up, shiny final version of events proton would like you to pretend happened after they deleted everything, instead of what actually happened. Worse, it pretends that was the only chain of events that happened. It's straight up gaslighting.
It's a very, very biased article that doesn't even attempt to do any kind of deep analysis and just tries to justify its stance by cherry picking, instead of actually looking at the facts and coming to a conclusion from there.
What's one specific point that you think is an outright lie or has been gaslighted away? The linked post addressed my personal concerns, but I want to see if there's something I missed.
