I think Tuta and mailbox.org are generally recommended, but I use Posteo which has been fine

The important part is to not put all of your eggs in one basket. This makes it so you can migrate off of one at a time rather than your entire life at once.

Try Fastmail, you will be impressed

Mailo.com. It's ugly as 2005 websites but it just works. You get IMAP, family accounts. It's just email. Old and reliable french company.

I did a pretty deep dive for my company recently. We are very data-privacy centric. Here was my Lemmy post on it: https://lemmy.world/post/51963153

Some of the items there are mentioned here, but after the evaluation, my hunch was correct and we are likely switching to https://runbox.com/

Good service, pricing, privacy focused but not so much that you need to host your own proxy like with Proton, and runs sustainably.

Here's Lemmy's reply from yesterday triggered by the same concern:

https://lemmy.world/post/53735981

Gmail was actually the easiest one to separate from, if you just count the transferring email addresses. It is a pain in the ass because so many services fight like hell to hold onto your google account you sometimes have to jump through hoops to remove it--a security risk in itself.

The big sticking point for me so far is photos... there are other options, but itś all integrated into my phone in weird ways I don't want to bother with right now.

I moved over to Tuta personally for email. And Tuta is EU-based if that matters to you. If you use other Proton features there are alternatives there as well.

For Proton Pass and Authenticator, there's Bitwarden (and self-hosted Vaultwarden). Which supports password storage, 2FA codes, and Passkeys across basically all devices. Also supports SSH agent forwarding if you work with that a lot.

For Proton Drive, Koofr seems to be a good option for cloud storage, also EU-hosted. They also have an additional locally-encrypted Vault for files you want additional security on. Things like 2FA bypass codes you get when you set up your accounts but don't want want hanging around in the open at all.

I’ve been pretty happy with Purelymail.

mailfence is pretty good so far. very basic but there are nice clients for IMAP these days

same. i started migrating to proton. and have my own domains. but use them through prot. now with this horsecrap i gotta get a third thing going… and migrate there. :/

Depending what you need and want, I can highly recommend posteo.de and while they are not as polished and use standard DAV, it works absolutely flawless, they are relatively cheap, based in German and have certifications for all kinds of security.

If you want something like Google Workplace, get a Nextcloud. Still not as polished, but open and if you want to change the provider, you can just do so. I recommend a combination of Nextcloud and Posteo.

And if you need a custom domain with everything bundled together, I can recommend xaweho.de. though they are not cheap...

I like Migadu. You must bring your own domain and you can add as many separate accounts as you want

iCloud does the trick and would work on google devices