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Alternative to Gmail? I currently use my own domain for email, but i miss the priority inbox (feddit.nl)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I've got two domain names set up for work and personal email, but I'm absolutely drowning in unread emails, around 4,000. Most are those annoying notifications like "Your security code is xxx," "Your parcel has shipped," and requests to rate my experience.

Right now, I've been trying out Inbox Zero with an old Gmail account. It's cool, but honestly feels a bit overkill and only works with Gmail and Outlook. I switched to my own domains to get away from Google in the first place!

So, I’m on the hunt for an email provider that has solid SPAM filters and can create a priority inbox without all the pesky notification clutter. Bonus points if it supports custom domains.

Any suggestions?

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[–] 5 points 10 months ago (14 children)

Are you basing this on anything? I agree with another poster that proton being the go to alternative is somewhat suspect in my paranoid brain but some of these remark here seem pretty outlandish.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/proton-mail-discloses-user-data-leading-to-arrest-in-spain/18191

    Before that: https://www.wired.com/story/protonmail-amends-policy-after-giving-up-activists-data/

    There are many, many more cases we don't hear about in media.

    If you consistently connect to Proton via I2P or tor and don't link a phone number or tracable recovery mail, you're covering up at least some of the juicy metadata.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Thanks for the links, the recovery email aspect was covered in the initial comment old mate was replying to. I was more interested in if the hand your ass over remark had anything to do with the “they cant read your emails”/encryption part. The second link is very interesting though:

    After providing the activist's metadata to Swiss authorities, ProtonMail removed the section that had promised no IP logs, replacing it with one saying, "ProtonMail is an email that respects privacy and puts people (not advertisers) first."

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    Auhorities in other European countries are known to MitM SSL certs at VPS providers for years already. Switzerland is moving their legislation towards the EU direction. Proton themselves have been vocal about their concerns about this.

    How long until someone realizes they can demand Proton to inject some extra JS into the webmail for desired targets? Folks in a sensitive situation should follow the established best-practice of not relying on remotely served JS for client-side encryption. To be safe against this vecor, handle your encryption and signing outside of the webmail; either in your own client or copy/pasting.

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  • [+] -11 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    Google it.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Burden of proof is on you.

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  • [+] -12 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    No it isn’t.

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  • [+] 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Just drop it (both of you)...at this point you're just a sea lion and a troll exchanging messages.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Also, sealioning is “just asking questions” (JAQ’ing off). Consistently interrogating a position or POV for example, with requests for evidence. Not asking someone to provide some sort of evidence for a single claim they made in reply to another user and refusal to find said evidence for them.

    Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning ) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity ("I'm just trying to have a debate"), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter

    Emphasis mine. From wiki. I appreciate the attempt to deescalate though and accept it’s probably time to pack it in with that particular user.

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