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What to use instead of gmail? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 days ago by Dropper_Post@lemm.ee to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Anything better?

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[-] hyacin@lemmy.ml 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Proton, but I've been questioning that of late :-/

[-] jesse@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

I was looking at moving to Proton as this all went down. Those plans are on hold.

After reading through it, I am having trouble figuring out how to read his comments because I wonder if there is some different cultural references or simplification going on between the Swis exec and American readers.

It was absolutely a stupid comment and was then the response was handed badly, but I don't know that I read it as aligning with Fascism.

This is the best writeup I can find: https://archive.ph/2025.01.29-213655/https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-trump-a-deeper-analysis-and-surprising-findings-aed4fee4305e

[-] hbm@feddit.dk 4 points 2 days ago

Thanks for the link. I was about to extend my Proton mail subscription to the full monty, but backed out when I saw the original incriminating post (which did surprise me, based on what I thought I knew about them). The writeup does offer a compelling argument for that one post having been taken a little too far in todays tribal political environment.

[-] jesse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah. I am not ready to move to Proton quite yet, but this doesn't feel like it was intended the way many Americans are reading it. They also have posts like this (not from the an executive I think, but official) that don't sound like getting in bed with the government: https://proton.me/blog/trump-controls-nsa-fbi

All that is to say, I am planning to give this a little longer and see what else happens, but I have not ruled out Proton yet.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 12 points 3 days ago

i get it... its still a quality service despite that one shithead exec

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[-] ray@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 days ago

If you really wanna get started with your own domain I highly recommend just getting https://purelymail.com/ setup for the hosting provider. It's going to be way cheaper than just about anything and you pay for what you use. I've been on it for a few years and never had a problem.

[-] Player2@lemm.ee 17 points 2 days ago

How about Tuta mail with a custom domain? They have unlimited custom domain addresses which is pretty nice

[-] caos@feddit.org 15 points 3 days ago

Everything is better ;-)

i.e. mailbox.org, posteo.de; there are also protonmail and tuta.com, but they don't have IMAP

[-] infeeeee@lemm.ee 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I use mailbox.org, my 2 points for it were:

it has IMAP support, so I can use whatever client I like
for "normal" people it doesn't sound very strange.

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[-] LemoineFairclough@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/email/

!privacy@lemmy.ml

[-] NahMarcas@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

Tutamail, they have direct access by fdroid too

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 11 points 3 days ago

mailbox.org and posteo are my recs

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[-] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 9 points 2 days ago

I'm actually busy setting up my own mail server. On my own infrastructure, using public static IPs etc. I'm done with all these other mail providers. I'm going back to the start.