Anything better?

  • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
    12·
    5 days ago

    I’m actually busy setting up my own mail server. On my own infrastructure, using public static IPs etc. I’m done with all these other mail providers. I’m going back to the start.

  • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee
    15·
    4 days ago

    Perhaps an indirect answer, but I’m using a duck.com forwarder whenever i need to give any address, these days. On top of tracker filtering and random alias generator, once i change addresses I’ll only have to update the forwarders destination.

  • hanabatake@lemmy.ml
    13·
    4 days ago

    This dude compare quite a lot of email providers in term of privacy. I do not necessarily agree with all its critics but it is a useful resource:

    https://digdeeper.neocities.org/articles/email

    I would recommend to buy your own domain in case you need to change again. That way, you’re not trapped by your email provider and you can change in case you’re not satisfied anymore

  • ray@lemmy.mlEnglish
    13·
    4 days ago

    If you really wanna get started with your own domain I highly recommend just getting https://purelymail.com/ setup for the hosting provider. It’s going to be way cheaper than just about anything and you pay for what you use. I’ve been on it for a few years and never had a problem.

      • nebulaone@lemmy.world
        31·
        4 days ago

        I recommended looking up the problems with self hosting a mail server first. Just go with Tuta imo, its cheaper and easier.

  • sunstoned@lemmus.orgEnglish
    10·
    4 days ago

    Another one for Tuta, with addy.io as a proxy service. Nice integration with Bitwarden for making new accounts + it’s simple to make rules based on the to address for easy filtering.

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
      5·
      4 days ago

      I’ve been meaning to check out Addy.io for a while now, because you’re not the first person I’ve seen mentioning it in threads like this. Your comment was the straw that broke the camel’s back and I’ve finally gone and checked it out. Thanks for including a link in your comment; it helped reduce the activation energy of setting it up

      • irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        463·
        5 days ago

        But the shithead exec is supportive of fascists which means privacy is secondary to the desires of the current regime. That’s just a standard part of fascism. And if the current regime is allowing untested backdoor code to be inserted in the Treasury department and NASA and the CDC and most major social media to strip out protections for people they don’t like, climate change, etc. Just imagine what someone who actually supports them ideologically would be willing to do.

          • irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            101·
            4 days ago

            I distance myself from companies run by people who say or explicitly support people who say that I don’t or shouldn’t exist. There are a few other things that make me distance myself from companies, but that one is a pretty hard line. (I’m gender “non-compliant” and on the Autism spectrum among other things that have been explicitly said don’t exist, shouldn’t exist, or need to be “cured”). Otherwise, I try to distance myself from any companies who explicitly collect and sell my information and other things that I find problematic, but that’s not always possible.

            • haverholm@kbin.earth
              4·
              4 days ago

              Keep fighting the good fight!

              (I’m trying to be encouraging, but obviously finding a baseline decent mail or other tech provider shouldn’t have to be a “fight” …)

          • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
            32·
            5 days ago

            People on all social media really can’t seem to understand that the choices aren’t exclusively “everything has a perfect open source, non-profit utopia” and “fuck it, everyone is corrupt so it doesn’t matter what service you use.”

            You are able to do what you can, where you can, to mitigate risks and try your best not to support fascists. Especially when there are a dozen alternatives.

            Then again, maybe people are just arguing in bad faith.

    • jesse@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      4 days ago

      I was looking at moving to Proton as this all went down. Those plans are on hold.

      After reading through it, I am having trouble figuring out how to read his comments because I wonder if there is some different cultural references or simplification going on between the Swis exec and American readers.

      It was absolutely a stupid comment and was then the response was handed badly, but I don’t know that I read it as aligning with Fascism.

      This is the best writeup I can find: https://archive.ph/2025.01.29-213655/https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-trump-a-deeper-analysis-and-surprising-findings-aed4fee4305e

      • hbm@feddit.dkEnglish
        4·
        4 days ago

        Thanks for the link. I was about to extend my Proton mail subscription to the full monty, but backed out when I saw the original incriminating post (which did surprise me, based on what I thought I knew about them). The writeup does offer a compelling argument for that one post having been taken a little too far in todays tribal political environment.

        • jesse@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          4 days ago

          Yeah. I am not ready to move to Proton quite yet, but this doesn’t feel like it was intended the way many Americans are reading it. They also have posts like this (not from the an executive I think, but official) that don’t sound like getting in bed with the government: https://proton.me/blog/trump-controls-nsa-fbi

          All that is to say, I am planning to give this a little longer and see what else happens, but I have not ruled out Proton yet.

  • Player2@lemm.eeEnglish
    18·
    5 days ago

    How about Tuta mail with a custom domain? They have unlimited custom domain addresses which is pretty nice

  • Yozul@beehaw.org
    8·
    4 days ago

    I’ve been using mailbox.org, and it’s pretty great. It’s cheap, it’s private, and it works well.

    I like the idea of e2ee email, but the way they all work it’s pretty much a completely useless feature for most people, myself included, and I also like using Thunderbird. It’s just not worth the trade off for something I’d basically never get any use out of anyway.

  • fragrantvegetable@sopuli.xyz
    9·
    4 days ago

    I’m using Infomaniak Mail and am fairly happy so far. They are based in Switzerland and I get custom domain + 5 user accounts for 1.50 EUR/month. I’ve tried other providers but coming from Gmail I like that their webmail displays email conversation like Google does whereas most other providers just run rainloop or roundcube where threading support isn’t quite the same.

    Their android app is open source too and can be installed from fdroid. It can be a bit sluggish sometimes though, but K9mail/Thunderbird works fine too.