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Tech Altar reply with the text: The funniest example was one firm switching to Zoho mail. They said using an Indian service was way less risky than using a US one. It's hard to describe how much goodwill towards America Trump's policies have erased.

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[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 29 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You know what's less risky than using corporate systems at all? FOSS

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Are there any good FOSS email providers? Like...I don't want to deal with setting up my own email service, that sounds like a nightmare. I used Proton for a bit and even that got me spam filtered out of a lot of important communications.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What's a "FOSS email provider"?

An email provider that uses FOSS products under the hood but operates as a normal for-profit company?

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's what I'm asking! I would assume that they would be some sort of non-profit that would operate on FOSS, but is that really even an option w/r/t security? Proton has FOSS licensing, but their backend isn't really open is it?

The OP is talking about email, and the comment I replied to was talking about open software for businesses, so I was asking for alternatives. I'm not really tech savvy enough to operate my own private email server.

[–] railcar@midwest.social 4 points 4 days ago

The backend of any service is "trust me" even if it's FOSS. Tuta has blogged about this

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Fastmail.

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 days ago

Thank you! I'll check it out.

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Fair enough, I use webhosting with Mythic Beasts for my domain and I just decided to use their email hosting too for my domain, it's way too hard for a small player to set up their own email and be viewed as trustworthy, with all the things the big companies do - I feel you for that one.

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Do you have any problems with MB? I was using my own domain with Proton, and for some reason outgoing email was only working half the time. Switched to Google for the time being, but it's SO EXPENSIVE (and also Google) that I want out ASAP.

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

MB works very well for both domain and web hosting for me

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 0 points 5 days ago

Thank you, I'll check it out!