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Help me with an email provider! (lemmy.nerdcore.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Abel@lemmy.nerdcore.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hello, I've been looking into email providers. I'm not an activist, just a regular user concerned over privacy.

I used CTemplar in the past until it shut down. Had a cockli email and although it isn't Google the privacy isn't stellar either. I tried to get into Proton, but being unable to use Thunderbird on he free plan was a massive turn-off for me since I like switching easily between different accounts.

After a bit of searching the following came across for me as the best services: [free] Autistici, PARANOID, Disroot, RiseUp. [paid] Posteo, Elude.

Assuming I theoretically got invites for all the free services (they're all reliant on manual approvation), which one would you recommend?

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[–] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure what the official advice is but, I've been pretty happy with Proton Mail. They have a free and several tiers of paid options.

I missed the line about proton. I've seen others be successful with thunderbird but idk there may be some breaking things going on.

[–] Abel@lemmy.nerdcore.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can't sign up to their services completely anonymous, if you try to sign up using Tor/VPN it requires SMS confirmation, a previous email (and they block temp addresses) or a donation. Suspicious. There's also some iffy stuff on how they encrypt your emails.