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I'm looking to degoogle my spam-mails

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[–] null 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've been using Protonmail for a while now and it's only gotten better.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Same, I love Proton. They rock.

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

thanks, will have a look!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I started with free Protonmail, upgraded to paid, now I'm a plus member. Fantasitc services.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I will have a look, dunno why you've been downvoted

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can only second Posteo. Using their services for years now, I can confirm that Posteo is caring about security, data protection and the environment (using green energy). Also you do not need to provide your mobile-phone number or personal information and you can use standard OTP apps to secure the weblogin when you want to use 2-Factor.

I am using several accounts shared between Thunderbird on Desktop and K-9 on Android.

The only issues I have is, when sending to some US providers that still do not have TLS ("Transportwegesicherung") implemented. In this case I have to manually deactivate the "TLS-Versand-Garantie"-option in Posteo settings, before the email can be send. Happens twice a year or so.

Maybe the Posteo suggestion gets downvoted, because their mail services indeed cost money (instead of scanning your communication and selling your data). But I find 1€ per account per month a good deal for what you get.

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

I've been a posteo user since 4 years and it has worked perfectly for me, totally recommended

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Proton Mail, Tutanota or Skiff should be good alternatives for you. Avoid any e-mail provider without EE2E and zero knowledge architecture.

I currently have an account on all three, but my daily is Skiff.

More important than e-mail provider to control spam is to use a unique e-mail address for each account you own. That could be attainable using e-mail aliases or e-mail forwarding services. Look up Simple Login, AnonAddy or even DuckDuckGo E-mail Protection for more information. Putting it simple, you create a different alias for each account. They all forward to your main e-mail inbox under different aliases. If needed, you can cancel the aliases thus ending spam from that origin.

I find it a very effective technique and my inbox is always pristine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I second Protonmail. I've been happy with them

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

I've been using fastmail for a decade

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Murena and Skiff are a couple of services I don't see recommended too often. Both are open source.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Is Murena E2EE?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Skiff is new and seem very nice

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

ProtonMail and Tutanota

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Anything else but G.

Despite of hypes about encryption, most of the email providers are about the same (as long as the provider is reliable and trustworthy enough).

However, make sure to isolate email addresses for different purposes as any of the providers can read your email (unless it's end to end encryption)