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An exhaustive guide to Gmail alternatives (midwest.social)
submitted 1 year ago by Banshee@midwest.social to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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This guy can be pretty harsh at times, but he's clearly very knowledgeable..

However, not all providers have a recent review, and his priorities are skewed heavily to the "paranoid" side of the tech world. For example, he considers being able to mail cash to a provider a significant pro. The overwhelming majority of users aren't mailing cash to pay for their email.

Overall, it's good info that's worth sharing.

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[–] Akip@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

further read

PGP and SMIME can't encrypt the header which include subject, from, to, cc only the body of the endo, the text is encrypted. This is how encryption of email works.Tutanota don't use a standard encryption system this means also the subject is encrypted but it is not compatible which 99 % of the other email providers.If ProtonMail get a court order to get access to the mailbox they can only give them the access to the mailbox without the pgp key. So they see the header / subject but all encrypted contacts and the body of the emails are secure.If tutanto have to do the same they get less information.You must choose what's more important for you.

[–] Ward@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure if this is entirely true, it is possible Proton mail is encrypting everything at rest (with the users public key) and only following PGP mail limitations during transit.

[–] Akip@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Cool, thank you for clearing that up!