Bonus question: what email inbox client do you use?
Protonmail, it's fantastic. Sleek design, solid feature set, integrates with Thunderbird if you want to use that.
I used to pay for Gmail, then I used Proton Mail about a year, and I’ve been using Fastmail for the last couple of years, which I recommend. I don’t know of anything that’s as feature-rich and easy to use as Fastmail. You may not be interested in all those fancy features, though.
I use MacOS/iOS Mail clients, but also Thunderbird as I’m trying to wean myself off of Apple’s ecosystem and onto Linux/FOSS.
Mailbox.org with my own custom domain (firstname@surname.co.uk) and Thunderbird for an email client.
I would highly recommend it. It is cheap and includes almost a complete replacement for Google services (email, contacts, calendar, online drive, etc).
Please consider your privacy. Giving all you emails to Google (or other mainstream data harvesters) basically gives them deep info about your whole life (purchases, travel, communication....everything).
Having a custom domain let's you go to any provider you like if you want to switch.
I'm with mailbox too and generally it's been pretty solid. The only thing I dislike is that their 2fa implementation is weird, and maybe that I can't get a separate password to put in my server.
On the other hand you get a lot of solid email related things for good privacy and a pretty cheap price. They even host a thing for encrypted video calls and a document server for collaboration.
Fastmail, 100%. Reasons:
- "Encrypted email" only works between encrypted providers. ProtonMail and Tutanota are both very inconvenient, and all I want is an email that's not scanned for marketing.
- Since 2018, ProtonMail kept getting worse, especially with the recent AI stuff. Dodged bullet, IMO.
- $6/month = Custom domains, and any amount of emails under those domains. I can send and receive from any domain
xxx@yyy [dot] lynndotpy [dot] dev, for example. - CalDav and CardDav provider = Contacts, calendar, and reminders sync. Works perfectly on iOS too, if you like that.
It replaced my finnicky NextCloud for half the cost.
yeah.. it's pretty hard to get non-techies to use encrypted mail. even proton's encryption is pretty useless as it's decrypted in their web client anyway.
I might have to change my provider. Paying the same with a worse featureset.
Proton, yes. There are some criticisms to make regarding them, but I think most are either blown out of proportion or a non issue for the majority of people.
Mailfence and Protonmail.
Mailfence has shorter inactive account policies which result in account deletion, and its login sessions are terminated very quickly.
I have also experienced multiple mail receipt failures because of instable mail servers in their pool, but that was back in December, and never recurred.
I only use Mailfence for throwaway emails.
Migadu. Yeah*. On the computer, I use mostly aerc (+notmuch), but hop on Thunderbird once in a while; on mobile I use K-9.
* If you are not looking for totally free options (though their cheapest plan is 20€/y and they give 50% discount to students), and if you don't care about email encryption (which you shouldn't). Migadu has a very good Pros/Cons page, I highly recommend you take a look, even if you're not using or planning to use their service.
I’m also a Migadu user. Nothing but good experiences with them. Simple, solid, and straightforward.
Same. Have multiple domains and mailboxes with them, really solid. The thing I love most is probably the catch all address (allows me to effortlessly create "one-shot" addresses) and the plus-addressing automatic folders (i.e. mails to foo+bar@domain.tld automatically go to folder "bar" in mailbox "foo").
Proton for personal email. Not immediately needing to escape but once my free email runs out of storage I plan to switch to something else because of the concerns raised by the incident with the French climate activist.
Ionos.
Too lazy to selfhost. Also the implications of self hosting and securing email is too cumbersome to sleep well at night.
But I do self host non-important to my living at home.Edit:
Inbox: Outlook. Tried eM-Client but it was worse than Outlook (around 2018 or 19)Gmail, wouldn't recommend. Use it out of necessity.
I use k9 mail for checking on mobile and it is solid most of the time
