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European alternatives to Google's Gmail (europe.pub)

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cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/7501

What European email services do you use?

Please recommend other interesting email services by your experience.

I have switched from Google's Gmail to ProtonMail and kMail. I really like both, kMail (by Infomaniak) have very similar app interface to Gmail so you will get used to it very fast and also have big storage for free and very good offers for paid plans 👍🏼

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[-] rooroo@feddit.org 259 points 1 month ago

Fuck Proton and their Trumps-ass-kissing CEO though.

[-] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 month ago

yes, one comment saying that republicans do one thing right means exactly what you wrote

[-] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 86 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Here's the actual tweet so you can see it for yourself

He did praise Trump and platform him, then he praised the Republican party saying they are the party of "the little guys" (small business), which is just flat out wrong. He does not acknowledge that there are an abundance of things Trump is doing that is fucking awful and disgusting. At best it's an extremely tone-deaf tweet.

What that comment does is paint Trump and the Republican party in a very good light and ignores other things they do that are terrible, illegal, and much more important than a single cherry-picked action. That's effectively an endorsement (i.e. ass-kissing) without saying it in exact words.

Also, it's so very obvious that anyone associated with Trump absolutely needs to abide by Trump's every whim or else he will replace you. So, the point he was trying to make is entirely moot in the first place.

There is just no way to praise Trump or the Republican party without showing your ignorance or alignment with them. Just like you can't just have a little bit of shit in your food. Once you've got even a little bit of shit in your food, then you've got shit-food. Or, in this case, a Trump-shit stained CEO's mouth.

[-] rooroo@feddit.org 23 points 1 month ago

It’s even worse than I thought tbh. Half a year ago I considered a move to Proton, now I’m glad I didn’t.

[-] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

I did move, then cancelled my sub. Now I have to find another another

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[-] ExplosiveLynx@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

It's one more than I'd like.

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh nice hadn't heard of KMail and I'm trying to degoogle. Proton's fine but the owner is another tool so options are nice

Oh it's KDE even better

[-] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 38 points 1 month ago

KMail is not a service by KDE, you probably confused it with KMail, the mail client by KDE. It's a service by Infomaniak.

[-] anguo@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

It was also pretty hard to find information about it, searching for "ikmail" will get you there easier. I also found out it's technically not available in Canada yet, although I'm sure this shouldn't be too hard to circumvent.

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[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 1 month ago

"Needs client app" is a funny way of saying it "supports open protocols as first class citizens".

[-] varyingExpertise@feddit.org 8 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, what's up with that? IMAP, SMTP and CardDAV to good for some people or what?

[-] easily3667@lemmus.org 26 points 1 month ago

No Nazi supporters please

[-] rooroo@feddit.org 25 points 1 month ago

You don’t need a client app for mailbox.org? I use it just fine on any standard mail client.

[-] anguo@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 month ago

That's what they mean, it doesn't have its own client.

[-] rooroo@feddit.org 12 points 1 month ago

Ahh I see. Tbh I see that as a definitive plus though, it’s email that uses email standards.

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[-] GreatBlue@infosec.pub 24 points 1 month ago

mailbox.org has a web app, so no need for a client app.
And Posteo also supports POP3, IMAP and SMTP, so you can use every mail client with support for it.

[-] unsettlinglymoist@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I'm in the US and wanted to switch from Gmail to a privacy focused European email provider, so I paid for a year of Posteo and so far I've been really happy with it. The service is excellent, it's inexpensive and their ethics/values as an organization are wonderful.

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[-] szczuroarturo@programming.dev 22 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Just a quick notice about proton here. While it is great, if you tend to forget your passwords be carefull beacuse you will lose all your mail history when you recover. I would reccomend something more casual for casual users.

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 27 points 4 weeks ago

If you use Proton and forget your passwords, it's okay because the Proton CEO openly praised a US president who has a history of breaking privacy laws and is actively antagonizing allies. With that moral compass running Proton, your privacy and security might be compromised at a later date.

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[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Proton, no thanks to the Government of Putin supporters. Tuta could be the winner for me.

[-] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

Switzerland supports putin?

[-] sudneo@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

Proton also donated money to Ukraine in 2022. Some people simply live on a separate reality.

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[-] FatLegTed@piefed.social 19 points 1 month ago

Proton

[-] Lasagna@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago

Same.

Getting a bit tired of the brigading against Proton. IMO the negativity is overblown and Proton is still a good option.

But do recommend everyone to get a custom domain so it’s easy to switch in case I’m proven wrong and Proton does turn sour.

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[-] matelt@feddit.uk 19 points 1 month ago

I switched over to Proton a few weeks ago, so far so good. They had my name available so no more weird convoluted email address anymore yay!

[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

I would highly recommend buying a domain name and use that for email, will be a lot less pain if you have to change provider again

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[-] snuggledick@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Been using mailbox.org for a couple of years and I'm quite happy with it. Don't know what "needs client app" is supposed to mean though. If you don't want to use a mail client you can use the web interface. I've used maildroid on Android with it and when it was discontinued switched to Thunderbird, both work fine with mailbox.org.

There's one tiny minor annoyance, they somehow automatically create a new "archive" folder for every year that the web interface uses when you hit the archive button but in your mail client you gotta change the preferences manually once a year. Don't know if you can change but it's such a minor inconvenience I never bothered to check.

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[-] BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

Tuta has been GREAT, so far. Hard recommend.

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[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Disroot is based in the netherlands i believe.

https://disroot.org/en

From their page:

“Disroot is a platform providing online services based on principles of freedom, privacy, federation and decentralization.

No tracking, no ads, no profiling, no data mining!”

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[-] GingerBear@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

I tried

Proton - too expensive
Tuta - too limited
infomaniak - i like it, but also limited

Created new domain name in cloudflare and got free account at zoho. It's free badic account, but with a symbolic gesture of 0.9 euro a month, you also get smtp, IMAP etc... and it plays very well with cloudflare!

[-] smik@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 4 weeks ago

It might not be for everyone but you could grab a domain + webspace for like 2€/month.

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 14 points 4 weeks ago

aaaand its blocked for spam.

https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/10/dead-letters/

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[-] finalaccountforreal@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

Been using Posteo since around 2015. They're great.

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