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Are private email providers worth it?
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IMAP + GPG
Right. So back to gmail?
No private registration or payment.
Sorry. I don't understand
Tuta has no IMAP, vendor lock-in, bad.
Proton has IMAP with extra steps, almost vendor lock-in, bad.
Gmail has IMAP, good. So, we can use it with our own libre app, with GPG, but first we need an account.
Making a new Gmail account is not private. Also, paying for paid Gmail is not private.
https://sh.itjust.works/comment/20802308
Good points.
what about cock.li or disroot, if you don't like getting blackholed?
POP is better than IMAP, the emails get deleted from the servers.
IMAP can delete too. When it's not your server, there's no proof it's actually deleted. So, use GPG.
yeah, just that I like the protocol design better. also GPG isn't that great, so maybe sending files encrypted with ssh or age(or lxmf uri messages)