Suggestions for choosing email provider (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by oi34ojjhkew@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I am trying to choose an email provider, to use with my identifying accounts (like banks, gov ids, etc.). I feel that emails for such cases do not need to be end-to-end encrypted, since most information would already be present with banks, gov, etc.

So I was looking at non-E2EE emails - Mailbox and Posteo.

Between Posteo and Mailbox - which one do you use / is better in terms of privacy?

I noticed that both of these are hosted in Germany. With rise in popularity of right wing party, a bunch of stuff around chat control and verification, and even normal German government support for Israel, I was wondering whether I should look for other solutions hosted elsewhere. Or use Proton / Tuta instead?

Also, I am not sure if any of these companies support right-wing or Israel themselves?

Do you have any suggestions regarding this?

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[-] voxel@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

The post is a bit misleading. Posteo and Mailbox offer end-to-end encryption through OpenPGP.

Proton offers E2EE through OpenPGP and when communicating with other Proton Mail users.

Tuta offers E2EE only for communication with other Tuta users.

The encryption of incoming and outgoing emails to other providers Proton, Tuta, Mailbox (possibly Posteo too) provide, is not end-to-end encryption, as the mail content is visible to the provider and only encrypted at rest.

There is a good video by "By Default" on YouTube which highlights this.

this post was submitted on 11 May 2026

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