Mailbox.org is currently the best alternative. I think they will resolve your issue.
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Honestly, bring on the down votes but Proton is a massive, massive improvement over google. Bring your own domain into it and then you can switch providers at a later time hassle free if they do something annoying enough to warrant the switch.
Ive seen the hate, I agree; fuck the CEO, but compared to google it is wildly the better the better choice
It doesn't look bad but 3 aliases free and no custom domain AFAIK
Yeah, that was the deal breaker for me too
Fastmail. They do just mail and aren’t attempting to be a full Google Suite replacement.
Been there for almost a decade with zero issues.
Fastmail has servers in the US, which is not great for privacy. Even if you use their EU server there's still a copy of your data in the US:
Resilient replicas of your data will live in the US (for now). As we only have one location in Europe so far, the geographically separate copy will remain on servers in one of our US locations.
Given that it's November, if you aren't in a hurry you might want to check whether whatever provider you decide to go with had a Black Friday sale last year. I wouldn't let a sale be a deciding factor on what to use, but if a service you want to try is likely to have a sale in a few weeks you may as well wait.
I Had No issues with Mailbox. I think it will be resolved Just fine in your favour
I am Happy With their product. Maybe you experienced a hiccup.
The fact that I have to process a manual payment every month is pretty bad. Also, they just seem to have issues with most American debit or credit cards - I could only get one to work without "Unknown Error" every time. Then the billing error where I paid, received 3 separate confirmation emails and 3 days later they restricted my account for non payment.
Ah okay. I didn't know that. I paid for a whole year, but I'm living in the EU where the acceptance of some pay methods might be easier
You don’t have to do a monthly manual payment, I buy a few years at a time (USA) and they email me when it’s getting low. Not sure what billing issues you’re seeing but that sounds v annoying
I like migadu.com. Not sure why it's never recommended. OK, the UI is outdated, but i rarely have to go there anyway. Been using it for 2-3 years now, not a single hiccup yet.
If proton works great for you, use it. But stay alert.
Otherwise, i would give tuta a chance. There's also infomaniak.
I use Posteo, but Thundermail seems okay (if you can overlook Mozilla).
besides taking money from Google, is there other issues with Mozilla?
if you're okay with their price, mxroute seems good to me. i just use disroot mail though.
Buy a personal domain with mythic beasts and use their default settings to set it up as a mailbox, then connect to it with Thunderbird
- Forward Email
- Self-hosted email: Stalwart
wait for it, another new one that isn't corrupt (yet) will spring up any time now to keep a protocol that was never private and by all rights should be left to die, alive.
Selfhosted
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