What's a good alternative to gmail?

3 years ago by UlfKirsten to c/degoogle

I'm looking to degoogle my spam-mails

null 21 points 3 years ago

I've been using Protonmail for a while now and it's only gotten better.

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Landrin201 5 points 3 years ago

Same, I love Proton. They rock.

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Crabhands 3 points 3 years ago

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Grangle1 1 point 3 years ago

Their other services such as Calendar and VPN have been making big strides in the past year or two as well. Even just in the past couple months the quality improvement on the VPN has been visible (speed, better reliability on streaming services).

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UlfKirsten 2 points 3 years ago

thanks, will have a look!

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lps 1 point 3 years ago

I'd agree proton is a great service with more services being added all the time

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HappyHippo 10 points 3 years ago

Check out Posteo!

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UlfKirsten 4 points 3 years ago

I will have a look, dunno why you've been downvoted

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marv99 5 points 3 years ago

I can only second Posteo. Using their services for years now, I can confirm that Posteo is caring about security, data protection and the environment (using green energy). Also you do not need to provide your mobile-phone number or personal information and you can use standard OTP apps to secure the weblogin when you want to use 2-Factor.

I am using several accounts shared between Thunderbird on Desktop and K-9 on Android.

The only issues I have is, when sending to some US providers that still do not have TLS ("Transportwegesicherung") implemented. In this case I have to manually deactivate the "TLS-Versand-Garantie"-option in Posteo settings, before the email can be send. Happens twice a year or so.

Maybe the Posteo suggestion gets downvoted, because their mail services indeed cost money (instead of scanning your communication and selling your data),. But I find 1€ per account per month a good deal for what you get.

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marv99 1 point 3 years ago

I am using several accounts shared between Thunderbird on Desktop and K-9 on Android.

Maybe the Posteo suggestion gets downvoted, because their mail services indeed cost money (instead of scanning your communication and selling your data). But I find 1€ per account per month a good deal for what you get.

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Daklon 2 points 3 years ago

I've been a posteo user since 4 years and it has worked perfectly for me, totally recommended

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XpeeN 5 points 3 years ago

Tutanota or protonmail

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archroy 1 point 3 years ago

I second Protonmail. I've been happy with them

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Tatar_Nobility 4 points 3 years ago

Tutanota is decent.

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UlfKirsten 4 points 3 years ago

thank you

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73kk13 4 points 3 years ago

Would recommend mailbox.org or posteo.de.

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sparty 3 points 3 years ago

I've been using fastmail for a decade

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datallboy 2 points 3 years ago

Murena and Skiff are a couple of services I don't see recommended too often. Both are open source.

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landordragen 1 point 3 years ago

Is Murena E2EE?

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datallboy 1 point 3 years ago

According to their docs, no not fully. https://doc.e.foundation/support-topics/services

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landordragen 2 points 3 years ago

Proton Mail, Tutanota or Skiff should be good alternatives for you. Avoid any e-mail provider without EE2E and zero knowledge architecture.

I currently have an account on all three, but my daily is Skiff.

More important than e-mail provider to control spam is to use a unique e-mail address for each account you own. That could be attainable using e-mail aliases or e-mail forwarding services. Look up Simple Login, AnonAddy or even DuckDuckGo E-mail Protection for more information. Putting it simple, you create a different alias for each account. They all forward to your main e-mail inbox under different aliases. If needed, you can cancel the aliases thus ending spam from that origin.

I find it a very effective technique and my inbox is always pristine.

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dallying9468 1 point 3 years ago

Skiff is new and seem very nice

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MotherFlocker 1 point 3 years ago

Anything else but G.

Despite of hypes about encryption, most of the email providers are about the same (as long as the provider is reliable and trustworthy enough).

However, make sure to isolate email addresses for different purposes as any of the providers can read your email (unless it's end to end encryption)

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