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[-] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 36 minutes ago

I've been using Tuta for damn near a decade, and it's been great for me.

[-] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 4 points 1 hour 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.

[-] tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 5 points 2 hours ago

Just leaving my vote for fastmail. They are wicked.

[-] ray@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 hours 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.

[-] NahMarcas@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

Tutamail, they have direct access by fdroid too

[-] nrbray@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 hours ago

https://gitlab.com/simple-nixos-mailserver/nixos-mailserver

cracked it for me

[-] Dropper_Post@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago

What hardware is needed if you want to run this cheap and quiet? What you are using?

[-] Yaky@slrpnk.net 11 points 6 hours ago

Mailbox.org

Mailbox Standard compared to ProtonMail Plus:

Cheaper (€30/yr vs ~€50/yr; if you don't need custom domains, €1/mo)
More aliases (25 on mailbox, 50 on own domain. Proton has 10 TOTAL - why custom domain aliases are counted against Proton ones does not make sense to me.)
Support for any number of custom domains AFAICT (Proton Plus supports only one)
Trial account is not allowed to send emails, so fewer issues with services blacklisting proton.me and protonmail.com for spam (hasn't happened to me, but I have heard of some cases)
Can use a regular email client (security tradeoff for E2EE messages - but there already were plenty of discussions on whether E2EE has benefits, especially sending mail to other services)

[-] ramenu@lemmy.ml 1 points 49 minutes ago

If you're using a custom domain, don't use Mailbox.org, see below:

https://userforum-en.mailbox.org/topic/anti-spoofing-for-custom-domains-spf-dkim-dmarc#comment-1524

[-] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

Thanks. I'm on my second year in my bi-year purchase and considering options. Where's mailbox.org located and what are their privacy policies regarding government agencies requests?

[-] Avero@feddit.org 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

They're located in Germany and have to fulfill requests, they publish a yearly transparency report about that: https://mailbox.org/en/post/transparency-report-2024

[-] HorikBrun@kbin.earth 55 points 11 hours ago

A couple months ago, I would have said Proton. But....

Here we are.

[-] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 19 points 11 hours ago

I switched to Proton about 6 months ago.

Wish I had waited. Ah well.

[-] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 13 points 9 hours ago

Domains are cheap, buy one and then you can jump between whatever services aren't caught up in the outrage of the moment.

[-] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

I did, but I already paid for two years (plus did a bunch of work to migrate files over). So I'll be here for a bit.

[-] perry@lemy.lol 25 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

disroot and autistici have been providing decentralised communication services (like email) free of cost for many years. They are both run by activists and survive on donations, and they don't spy on you or get any money from your data. Also they run freedom-respecting software, so all their code is publicly auditable.

[-] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 42 points 12 hours ago

Buying your own domain.
You can then use whatever provider, or host your email service... but at least you don't need to change addresses when switching anymore.

[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 1 points 31 minutes ago* (last edited 30 minutes ago)

MXRoute is what I use as my domain's email server and it's good enough. The included browser email clients (it offers multiple) are sort of trash but if you just use your own it's perfect. It's pretty cheap too

[-] thirdBreakfast@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

I started doing this, maybe 15 years ago, but if I look through my spam folder now, most of it is to the email address I used before I began using unique addresses (the rest is to random addresses in my domains that I've never used).

My hypotheses from that are that

there is probably less 'selling of email lists' going on than we think
I'm less interested in dubious internet sites than I used to be
or (most likely) these days, your internet thing has to be offering me some real value if I'm going to consciously give you any of my data.

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[-] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 10 points 9 hours 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.