Recommended me a good private email provider
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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.
I've been using Inbox.eu, provider from Latvia, for a few years now, specifically with my own domain. Was pretty easy to setup, and the support was also good when I messed up some DNS settings.
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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.
Switzerland is one of the least shit so I fail to see your point.
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Switzerland is one of the least shit so I fail to see your point.
You proton zealots certainly have your own hill
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You proton zealots certainly have your own hill
They may, as do morons.
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They may, as do morons.
Is that your choice word for me?
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Fastmail has been treating me well. Unlimited aliases and masked emails are really the only features I use, but it’s got sort of the classic suite of productivity tools you’d expect. I self host equivalents of these, but for a drop in replacement for most of the g-suite it’s good without trying to be more than it needs to be.
It's great except it's hosted in Australia. Not really privacy focused.
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It's great except it's hosted in Australia. Not really privacy focused.
Yeah fair. A big part of my interest in it is that it split from Opera Software through a staff buyout, which to me says the people working there and maintaining it care a touch more than some companies. From the literature I consumed when signing up they seemed very privacy forward, and as a Proton VPN user I didn’t want all my eggs in one basket should Proton turn out to be a honeypot. That all being said, I agree with your point that they are subject to a legal system that doesn’t put users first compared to other countries, though for anything really sensitive I’m not really sure I would be using email to begin with, particularly not one I use for general clear net personal communication like banking and such.
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Proton has not gone rogue.
The only thing that turns people off is that they cooperate with governments. Well, if you're using it for your business you shouldn't worry about that unless it's illegal business, at which point you have bigger problems
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Is that your choice word for me?
If the hat fits, that's up to you
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The only thing that turns people off is that they cooperate with governments. Well, if you're using it for your business you shouldn't worry about that unless it's illegal business, at which point you have bigger problems
They dont "cooperate with governments", they follow the laws they legally have to. All the cases I can think of where they gave info to a government with a legal order to do so, they gave information that has to be logged in order for the system to work and the subjects themselves used poor opsec eg: their real names for accounts and recovery emails...
Some privacy extremists have unrealistic expectations when they sign up to these things without fully understanding how it works and then blame the provider for something they were completely transparent about from the beginning.
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They dont "cooperate with governments", they follow the laws they legally have to. All the cases I can think of where they gave info to a government with a legal order to do so, they gave information that has to be logged in order for the system to work and the subjects themselves used poor opsec eg: their real names for accounts and recovery emails...
Some privacy extremists have unrealistic expectations when they sign up to these things without fully understanding how it works and then blame the provider for something they were completely transparent about from the beginning.
You're right, they got called out as a "honeypot" for basic KYC...
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Tuta. Regardless of email provider, chose one that lets you use your own domain - that way it's easier to change providers.
I’ve been using Tuta for several years now, I didn’t know I could use my own domain!
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I’ve been using Tuta for several years now, I didn’t know I could use my own domain!
Paid tiers only i think, but yes.
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Paid tiers only i think, but yes.
I am a paid tier… and I have my own business… this is really something I need to do.
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If the hat fits, that's up to you
If you were projecting any more you'd be a lighthouse
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I am a paid tier… and I have my own business… this is really something I need to do.
Do it. It’s very straightforward.
- Buy a domain.
- Edit the DNS records to make your provider work with your domain.
- In Tuta (or even an alias service like Addy), create new emails using your custom domain.
- Done.
Whenever you need to switch providers such as if Tuta decides to support fascism like Proton’s CEO, you can easily switch to a new provider. Then add your domain to the provider, update your DNS records to point to your new provider, click Save. Done. And you won’t have to change your email addresses ever again.
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Do it. It’s very straightforward.
- Buy a domain.
- Edit the DNS records to make your provider work with your domain.
- In Tuta (or even an alias service like Addy), create new emails using your custom domain.
- Done.
Whenever you need to switch providers such as if Tuta decides to support fascism like Proton’s CEO, you can easily switch to a new provider. Then add your domain to the provider, update your DNS records to point to your new provider, click Save. Done. And you won’t have to change your email addresses ever again.
This is amazing, thank you
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Yeah fair. A big part of my interest in it is that it split from Opera Software through a staff buyout, which to me says the people working there and maintaining it care a touch more than some companies. From the literature I consumed when signing up they seemed very privacy forward, and as a Proton VPN user I didn’t want all my eggs in one basket should Proton turn out to be a honeypot. That all being said, I agree with your point that they are subject to a legal system that doesn’t put users first compared to other countries, though for anything really sensitive I’m not really sure I would be using email to begin with, particularly not one I use for general clear net personal communication like banking and such.
100%, like you said, email isn't really made for private communications. Even with me calling it out as not private, I do use fastmail as my main provider and like it.
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They have extremely similar laws in Switzerland
"extremely" ....switzerland knows ONE law and it is called money.
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Another mailbox.org user here. I did the same switch as @[email protected] around the same time and I can highly recommend as well. Setting up custom domains is also not hard and well documented in their knowledge-base. I am also using it for calendars and contacts with no issues at all. A plus of their premium (3€/month) plan, apart from custom domains, is that you have access to a series of other things (appointments, videoconferencing etc.) which are a nice thing to have if you need them (as an occasional teacher in academia I enjoyed having the options, especially since I could avoid Google/Microsoft stuff).
The only annoying thing is how they handle 2fa login on their website. I rarely need to login, but when I do I always suffer.
Did you try the new 2FA experience they have in beta? https://mailbox.org/en/post/beta-program-starts
