I’ve been wanting to move on from gmail for a while now, thought about self hosting but I’m afraid I won’t have the time or ability to keep it running well for a long period of time. Which service would you guys recommend? I’m not an avid email user, I basically just sign up to websites and send support emails once in a while.
I’m surprised no one’s posted about Skiff.
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Well, you know, e-mail gives you complete privacy only in special cases. There is a reddit’s comments thread about this. Non-gmail e-mail is only needed to avoid monitoring by the mail service provider.
TL;DR If you need complete privacy of communication, use Matrix-based software with your own server located in a neutral country.
After reading comments from their CEO on the protonmail subreddit I’m surprised anyone would use it in the first place.
I don’t use it as my default provider. Obviously, for some messaging, I use Proton. But if you need a FOSS provider, that will be used for registration in some services and password recovery, this is a very good option! They don’t use this information for commercial purposes, that’s already better than Gmail or Outlook.
Skiff uses discord, so… idk what I think of that, they also lack support for pgp and are in the us afaik
+1 on Skiff. E2EE intra- and inbound. Great service, greater support. Free custom domains setup (& catchall aliasing!!!). Comes with a Drive, Pages, and Calendar suite.
Got excited and then immediately sad while reading they were involved in crypto.
Do they provide SMTP? So that I can use it in a Wordpress instance?
No SMTP or IMAP as it’s an E2EE service and unlike Proton they don’t (yet anyway) have a “bridge” service. You get to use your own domain, a handful of aliases, and a generous amount of storage all on the free plan with higher limits on the paid plans.
Anyone looking for standard mail protocol support and gobs of storage for free/cheap and who are cool with a very non-sexy 90s web UI, would do well to check out the European provider mail.ee . They’ve been reliable for me over the past year or so though I’m not exactly a high-volume customer.
They don’t.