Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail?

• Tutanota makes encryption easy

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  Tuta is an email service with a strong focus on security and privacy that lets you encrypt emails, contacts and calendar entries on all your devices.

  

Do not use any that doesn’t let you configure your domain. Never use that one email address @ unless they also let you have it or free (like Tutanota does). Just don’t. Imagine it doesn’t exist. No matter how ruthless you are it will be a friction in moving to a different provider.

I will list some:

- http://mailbox.org (I use it; this is my main provider and my personal domain is setup here; they are decent and private; their spam filter is not the best but much better than Gmail’s; other services on their suites are nothing to write home about; its you get what you pay for -- though their new pricing is not much less than other providers; I am on the old pricing and I don’t see myself moving to anything else unless they enforce it. Pathetic support - they simply don’t respond most of the times. Well, I guess you get what you pay for.)

- https://tutanota.com (I use it, not on the domain though - and not really for “public” usage; please know that you just can’t have IMAP access - either use their app, or the web app, no other client - or at least that is how it was last I checked. They are extremely responsible, really good team, keep releasing new features - both for usability and privacy; much better than Mailbox on many aspects)

-https://fastmail.com/ (It’s the “HN Exclusive Favourite”. Too expansive for my usage and that is their first paid tier which is very limited; people swear by their mail client - I have never used it and I doubt I will. I secretly suspect HN has a shill/fan/etc following of these folks here just like Apple has :-D)

- https://protonmail.com (I might move to them if I ever leave mailbox.org. They are good. None of these are good if you get into the discussion of 5 eyes, 14 eyes, and 7 ears etc; I am not saying you should not but then you would end up with zero providers or just one like riseup.net or so or maybe not even that; riseup is great though, I donate to them and have a “non-public”.)

- Zoho (I’d say stay away; I’ve reasons, some of those reasons might be off-topic for hn)

- https://purelymail.com (If it wasn’t a one-person setup, I’d have definitely tried them; a friend uses them and he says it’s excellent; very good/transparent pricing)

- Migadu (has very questionable daily email quota on their base plan. I would not want to deal with that and hoping for an exception or that it is not really enforced)

My use-case is not hiding from state actors, because I can’t. I am not that skilled and motivated. If yours is similar I highly recommend pick one of mailbox, protonmail, fastmail.

Finalise a domain now (preferably something that let you keep your whois data private) and never renew for less than 2 years at once. Have different kinds of backup email with your domain registrar e.g. gmail, icloud.com (if you have one) etc; 2FA; your phone number (in my country it’s easier to kidnap someone and torture for few hours to days to get the password than SIM hijacking/sppfing, you mileage might vary),

• Mailcow

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  mailcow: dockerized - 🐮 + 🐋 = 💕

  

I'm using a own domain in the format of service-namemydomain.com all hosted by mailcow. The feature set and anti spam worked better for me than GSuite/Gmail and I have the server for various home/fun projects already.

So if you are going self-hosted, I can really recommend MailCow (https://mailcow.email/)

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