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For a while now I have been looking for email providers that are transparent and meet EFF standards, and in fact, I went to the EFF website to see if there was an article about email providers, but found nothing, the only decent providers I could find on my own, have been tutanota and cock.li, I am currently using tutanota and was planning to move everything to cock. li, but unfortunately it hasn't been going through its best moment, I would stay with tutanota if it wasn't for one thing, and that is that it can't be used inside thunderbird, there is a plugin that allows you to open a window with tutanota, but that's not the idea, ideally you would be able to add your email address without any external plugin, and that is why I am asking for recommendations that meet the standards mentioned above, but that is also compatible with thunderbird to be able to save the emails locally, any client can download the emails to be able to have them locally, but that is the one I use personally.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

I am currently hosting my own email on a server that I rent and I am absolutely sick and tired of email issues, spam, google randomly being assholes and blocking my family's traffic, just stupid shit. It's a second fucking job at times. I have DKIM, DMARC, SPF all configured correctly, Google just randomly decides to stop my traffic randomly. Which of these options would you recommend for say up to 20 email accounts or so, using your own domain? I assume all of these options do things like spam filtering on the back end.

To be clear, I am not looking for free, just reasonable.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Riseup.net.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Seconded. Been a user for years without a single problem.

PS: There's also Proton and Posteo, they're all fine. The important bit is to pay for it. This is a critical hub for your personal data. It's completely aberrant that people have allowed themselves to be trained to accept a free service in exchange for spying. A dollar or two a month is not prohibitive for anyone. We should all be paying for this service.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thirded. Came from Proton even. It's been solid for sure!

Use it daily with a couple applications. Namely Thunderbird on Android and Mailbird on Windows.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i got on posteo recently, it's great. sometimes the webmail feels a little archaic but it's probably for good reasons and keeps costs down. every setting i could want is exposed and their guides are really good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

The webmail is just Roundcube with a skin and some Posteo-specific modifications. I quite like it, as it does its job without relying on 24 different JS frameworks and turning my laptop into a hotplate.

It's also LibreJS compliant, which is nice.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I use Proton and it has this bridge application where it connects to the Proton servers and then serves your mail to Thunderbird or whatever locally. So that might work for you, but I'm not sure.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's a paid feature. Just in case.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Oh, good catch. I don't have to use it, so I wasn't aware of that. I just knew it existed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The FSF has a page with recommended mail services Free Software Webmail Systems

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Take a look at Migadu. Maybe that fits your criteria. I moved there from Tuta.