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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 44 points 6 months ago (13 children)

Do you have any recommendations for someone who just uses them for email?

[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 50 points 6 months ago (3 children)
[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 months ago

I use them too. Their web ui and app are totally ugly crap but if you use it with thunderbird or another mail app it’s good.

[–] kat@orbi.camp 8 points 6 months ago

Just switched and couldn't be happier. Now I can use FairMail as a client and loving all the extra features.

I used a custom but generic sounding domain name which made the switch pretty seamless.

[–] dahpu@feddit.org 1 points 6 months ago

I'm only missing tag support on emails from them. In my ever growing archive, I came to realize, that tags are better suited for organizing than folders.

Ideally I would archive in yearly folders and also tag as much as I can.

[–] Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I've been using Tuta for more than 8 years now and had one serious issue with their service during this time (longer outage, pretty early on). Other than that I have nothing but positive experience with them.
They're also based in Germany if that makes any difference.

[–] zugzwang@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I was debating between proton and tuta, but I was able to get first.last@tuta so I’m happy that worked out now.

[–] Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

We can only hope they won't screw up as well in the future.

[–] leobm@piefed.social 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I’m happy Posteo.net user.
German and secure email service.
But unfortunately the web frontend isn't quite as good, so if you are dependent on something like this then don't use it.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've been a Runbox customer for many years. Never had any problem with them. They're located in privacy-friendly Norway.

[–] brap@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Been very impressed with Runbox since Andy turned out to be an idiot.

[–] smallflag4168@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not OP, but I’ve been using Fastmail for a few years now and have had no issues with them.

[–] themadcodger@kbin.earth 4 points 6 months ago

Same, I just switched over to them and have had a good experience with it.

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 4 points 6 months ago

Posteo is good. Have been using them for 2 years now.

[–] singletona@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've got an account with tilde.club

They even have a newsgroup service for the tilde community. It's not full on Usenet and there aren't any hosted files, but it's a nice community feature.

You get a gigabyte soft cap (three gig hard cap and a week grace period to get back to soft cap) but it actually talks to google, for the time being, and I've been making an attempt at migrating to the point of using gmail as a 'talking ot my republican family' and 'spam' account.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think im going to try it out. I dont like where proton is going.

[–] singletona@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

https://tilde.club/signup/ https://tilde.club/wiki/faq.html

Remember. This is a hobbiest community. Personal recommendation is using tilde.club for emails, and spread your other needs across other tilde servers.

Yes commandline interaction is required.

Save your SSH keys not just on your computer but in a couple other secure places. If you have to pull them from backup, remember to reset the file's permissions otherwise SSH won't like them. Setting up a password backup is very helpful here especially since that will let you use your mail address with apps such as k-9 on android, or claws/thunderbird/outlook for desktop.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

oh yeah def. Im going to donate if/when I take a look. sdf also has something similar.

[–] singletona@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

SDF's been, in my experiance, less sure? I don't want to talk trash about what is effectivly pubnix's grandaddy. I'm going to put money in the pot because I want that place to keep running, but i view it more as curiosity than cornerstone.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Tutanota has been pretty decent to me, though their android client is sometimes a little rough around the edges. Though never in a way that's caused problems for me or impaired usage, and it has a pretty enough interface.

They have a free plan if you're broke as shit like I am and are looking to switch from a free proton plan

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world -5 points 6 months ago

Hotmail. Been using it since high school and every data breach and fuck up taught me something new.