Bonus question: what email inbox client do you use?
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Privateemail, no complaints
Protonmail, it’s fantastic. Sleek design, solid feature set, integrates with Thunderbird if you want to use that.
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Proton, yes, thunderbird
Ionos.
Too lazy to selfhost. Also the implications of self hosting and securing email is too cumbersome to sleep well at night.
But I do self host non-important to my living at home.Edit:
Inbox: Outlook. Tried eM-Client but it was worse than Outlook (around 2018 or 19)Migadu. Yeah*. On the computer, I use mostly aerc (+notmuch), but hop on Thunderbird once in a while; on mobile I use K-9.
* If you are not looking for totally free options (though their cheapest plan is 20€/y and they give 50% discount to students), and if you don’t care about email encryption (which you shouldn’t). Migadu has a very good Pros/Cons page, I highly recommend you take a look, even if you’re not using or planning to use their service.
Okay you added an asterisk but I’m not seeing a footnote. Is that a markup typo?
No no, it was just me being very silly and forgetting to write an important part of my comment .-.
Fixed, thanks!I am intimately familiar with the concept of forgetting things.
You’re cool. :)
I’m also a Migadu user. Nothing but good experiences with them. Simple, solid, and straightforward.
Same. Have multiple domains and mailboxes with them, really solid. The thing I love most is probably the catch all address (allows me to effortlessly create “one-shot” addresses) and the plus-addressing automatic folders (i.e. mails to [email protected] automatically go to folder “bar” in mailbox “foo”).
I self host. Don’t.
I used to pay for Gmail, then I used Proton Mail about a year, and I’ve been using Fastmail for the last couple of years, which I recommend. I don’t know of anything that’s as feature-rich and easy to use as Fastmail. You may not be interested in all those fancy features, though.
I use MacOS/iOS Mail clients, but also Thunderbird as I’m trying to wean myself off of Apple’s ecosystem and onto Linux/FOSS.
+1 for fastmail… it’s one of those products that isn’t trying to trick you… you pay for it, and it’s just a solid product that tries to be the best at what it is…
it’ll let you have as many domains and aliases as you like, including wildcards for email (and lets you reply/send appropriately using any of those aliases)
it’ll let you pull all your calendars and push events into a single one of your choosing - it doesn’t have to be theirs
i could probably replicate some of what it does with my home server, but it’s really nice that i don’t have to
Does it have good spam filtering like Gmail?
i can’t remember the last time i got spam… i don’t know if it’s as good as, but it’s not a problem that i’ve noticed
Yep! It’s decent
I really want to move my domain from Google to Proton, but family accounts at Proton are so dang expensive. Fastmail is far cheaper than Google, so that looks like it might be a really good option.
yeah i have my single email account setup with 5 different domains and a multitude of different aliases - including *@auto.<mydomains> so you can sign up for throwaway [email protected] and nobody knows that it’s a throwaway so it never gets blocked by services (and the + trick in emails is well known by people doing nefarious things with email - they’ll automatically strip the wildcard part out so it can’t be traced)
Proton for personal email. Not immediately needing to escape but once my free email runs out of storage I plan to switch to something else because of the concerns raised by the incident with the French climate activist.
IIRC they warn people not to use recovery emails if they’re concerned about leaking information, idk why though
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Fastmail, 100%. Reasons:
- “Encrypted email” only works between encrypted providers. ProtonMail and Tutanota are both very inconvenient, and all I want is an email that’s not scanned for marketing.
- Since 2018, ProtonMail kept getting worse, especially with the recent AI stuff. Dodged bullet, IMO.
- $6/month = Custom domains, and any amount of emails under those domains. I can send and receive from any domain
xxx@yyy [dot] lynndotpy [dot] dev, for example. - CalDav and CardDav provider = Contacts, calendar, and reminders sync. Works perfectly on iOS too, if you like that.
It replaced my finnicky NextCloud for half the cost.
I might have to change my provider. Paying the same with a worse featureset.
You forgot the Fastmail killer feature. Masked email addresses.
PGP encrypted e-mail works regardless of the provider btw.
True but go and explain that to the regular Joe…
yeah… it’s pretty hard to get non-techies to use encrypted mail. even proton’s encryption is pretty useless as it’s decrypted in their web client anyway.
Gmail, wouldn’t recommend. Use it out of necessity.
I use k9 mail for checking on mobile and it is solid most of the time
Tuta. It’s great but no third-party client support.
I pay for a Google workspace account, but I’ve been thinking about self hosting. I’ve had my eye on mailcow for a bit, does anyone recommend?
Zoho, because it’s email server is free to use for custom domain adresses
