Instead of leaving Xitter, they left Mastodon. Proton's trend is not inspiring confidence and this feels like another step backwards.
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2025
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I've been giving them the benefit of the doubt, but I'm kinda done with them. Anyone have any suggestions for a mail provider? I'm not yet willing to self-host that.
I've been happy with mailbox.org. I left proton after the boot licking. I had been a paying customer for years.
I just signed up for mailbox.org, let's see how this goes
But are they on Mastodon? This is a very important factor for my purchasing decision.
The have their own single-user instance.
If all you need is mail, Tuta.
Posteo
Posteo unfortunately doesn't support custom domains.
Yes, for a reason. You have to register with a name and an address to obtain/buy a custom domain at a third party. Your identity could be traced back via this. This is against their very strict and consistent 'zero knowledge' policy.
Hmm I don't agree. You can always sign up using a foreign mail provider with a domain privacy service.
Could you break this down in how that works?
This means Posteo doesn't know anything about me, and even if the police raids Posteo they can't find who I am.
Of course they could, in theory, find out who I am, but that means going to the provider that I used to sign up for my domain, which may be on the other side of the planet outside of German police jurisdiction.
Thanks 🙏, but what you describe is a theoretical option, right? Posteo doesn't offer to integrate such a custom domain afaik - but please correct me if I'm wrong! Do you use Posteo with a custom domain?
No, of course not. That's why I'm thinking of migrating to another service that supports external domains, such as Mailbox.org
Thanks mate
It's sad, I really like their UI
If you're afraid of self-hosting, https://mailcow.email/ is pretty great and easy to setup for that if you want to go to this adventure, else, Tuta would be their main competitor but I don't really like their UI
While not exactly privacy focused, I've been using zoho for a while. Really happy with it. I distrust most of the ones that sell privacy as their main thing, because email is not designed to be private.
I've been using Tuta Mail for over 5 years.