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 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.
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.
It was the company’s official stance per their official social media account. Not just the CEO/one board member.
I still use proton, even after their terrible trump takes, but mostly because I have the legacy tier subscription and I haven’t found a better alternative.
Proton logs users IP addresses and shares with law enforcement https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58476983
As with any EU company, the Swiss government can compel them to keep logs for an individual user in the case of serious crime. You can use Tor as Proton recommends for that exact use case.
But by default Proton does not keep logs of IP addresses.
Switzerland is not in the EU.
They have extremely similar laws in Switzerland
“extremely” …switzerland knows ONE law and it is called money.
Tuta. Regardless of email provider, chose one that lets you use your own domain - that way it’s easier to change providers.
Another mailbox.org user here. I did the same switch as @caravaggio@feddit.nl 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
