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Like you I looked for an alternative to Proton and I've been using tuta for a couple of years now as my main mail. You can create aliases with your own custom domain. My only non important complaint is that you can't use other email clients (Thunderbird, K-9), due to their encryption I guess. They are also fairly active in Mastodon.
What annoys me with Tuta is that they make PGP encryption very difficult (they don't implement it at all, you have to use external solutions, which is made more difficult because you can't use external clients).
They argue it is less secure than their solution where they send non Tuta users a link and you give them a password. I argue that PGP is something people would use, while their solution isn't.
Proton does implement it, but I also have my gripes with Proton. Both of them feel like they want to build a walled garden / avoid being inter-operable.
Yeah you can't use it with Thunderbird due to the nature of end to end encryption indeed.
But see also https://tuta.com/blog/2fa-desktop-clients
Custom domain is free on tuta??
I don't think so and the comment didn't state that either, but you can use your own domain if you pay
How does that encryption work with mails? They get send as plain text?