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Hey everyone,

I have a free protonmail account for years now and will be losing access to my (main) university mail soon. My proton mail is filling up and I will need a reliable personal mail address going forward.

What is the current status with privacy oriented mail providers in the EU? I am willing to pay for my mail service but ideally not too much, protonmail is 4€/mo which is a bit much I think.

What is the general opinion now after some months on the protonmail ceo? Will the Swiss privacy laws cause issues soon? What about tuta and mailbox.org? I think I want to switch to my own domain soon so supporting custom domains is definitely something I look for. Also the ability to use imap and not have a separate app would be good.

Last time I checked half a year ago I found mailbox to be the best compromise but I decided it’s not worth the hassle yet to deal with my mail provider.

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[–] mr_noxx@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Posteo really doesn't get enough acknowledgment, in my opinion. They're a great and secure email service that seems to fly under the radar for most people. I recommend checking them out.

[–] ChristchurchAsshole@lemmy.ml 2 points 15 hours ago

I use it too, all the way from New Zealand. It's ridiculously cheap if you keep your emails under 2 gigabytes.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

More expensive than Tuta for a similar offering, but what's nice with Posteo is you can have a really low lowest tier with €1/mo, if that's all you need. 👍

I'm personally with Tuta.

[–] mr_noxx@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The thing that put me off of Tuta is that you cannot use it with any other mail client (like Thunderbird, for example).

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That would be nice indeed. They do have their own desktop client, but it should be possible to connect to their servers with some kind of add-on or something. That would be awesome.