Email - Any suggestions for email? I've been transitioning away from my Gmail account to an address at my personal domain name. Right now I'm using privateemail.com for hosting. The cost is reasonable, but the spam filtering is not great.

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🚀 adam

2023-10-27 · 7 months ago · 👍 Addison, hellfire103, Winco, sl1200

13 Comments ↓

🌲 sloum · 2023-10-27 at 16:27:

I've been quite happy with protonmail. I only use their mail service (I dont like having all my eggs in one basket), but I use it with an address with them as well as a custom domain and a number of aliases. THey have good spam filtering out of the box and using custom filters is easy and reasonably powerful. They also offer the standard tags, folders, and archiving. Spam and phishing reporting are available, as is white/black-listing addresses. I also have a mailfence account, but I hate it and do not particularly like their webmail service.

🕹️ skyjake [...] · 2023-10-27 at 16:29:

Living in Europe, I'm partial to Proton Mail. I've been a satisfied Proton subscriber for several years.

🐐 satch · 2023-10-27 at 20:18:

migadu is what I use

Possibly not what you’re looking for (certainly not encrypted by default, but it’s email so that’s the spec).

They are a much better company than most alternatives

🍀 gritty · 2023-10-27 at 20:33:

I'm also a proton supporter for years. I use their custom domain as well for my capsule and their VPN service. all have been solid. they keep expanding too - sharable encrypted calendars and a password vault are the latest additions.

🎵 xavi · 2023-10-27 at 21:19:

I like disroot.org since, as opposed to Tutanota (which I also have), it supports IMAP well. Which means it is possible to send OpenPGP/MIME-encrypted emails easily from other clients, such as Thunderbird.

🍄 hazelnutflavoredcoffee · 2023-10-27 at 21:37:

been using Tutanota for a while now - Protonmail *was* good, but they use Google for their push notifications on Android and imo that kinda goes against the whole 'we care about privacy' thing

🚀 ahappydeath · 2023-10-28 at 20:57:

I use mailbox.org and am pretty happy with it. I moved away from ProtonMail because it was harder to use my own email client (Thunderbird) with it - which is what I prefer to do now-a-days.

☕️ Morgan · 2023-10-29 at 07:52:

I use gmail behind a personal domain with forwarding by nearlyfreespeech.net. I consider the domain and forwarding to be the important part as it means I'm not tied to one email provider, and I've been using + happy with nearlyfreespeech.net for a long time. It's not free, though :)

🐐 satch · 2023-10-30 at 19:45:

Never use a provider which doesn’t give you IMAP and SMTP access.

☕️ hellfire103 · 2023-11-20 at 08:21:

I am currently using ProtonMail, which I am very happy with. I have used Tutanota and Disroot in the past, and they were pretty good; but Proton takes the cake in my opinion.

Have a look at s/Misfin, too. Misfin is an email protocol for the smolweb, as I understand it.

🐧 Winco · Nov 21 at 14:56:

Good discussion. I've been looking to replace gmail myself. Been eyeing up tutanota for a while now. Haven't look into it in a while but idealy one that's librejs compliant would be nice.

❄ sl1200 · Dec 28 at 21:30:

I have been using Tuta for years, I recommend it.

🚀 Markus_Ron · Jan 13 at 06:23:

It's nice to see people taking action to reclaim their privacy and their data. Since you have your own domain I think choosing "the right provider" is less critical since you can always change later in a few clicks.

I would strongly recommend you to setup a re-mailer service like simplelogin or addy anon. Especially if you have spam issues. You can create endless new mail address all using your domain.

Not only you can identify which companies are spamming you but you can also easily disable them, thus stopping the in-flow.