- cross-posted to:
- BuyFromEU@europe.pub
- cross-posted to:
- BuyFromEU@europe.pub
cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/7501
What European email services do you use?
Please recommend other interesting email services by your experience.
I have switched from Google’s Gmail to ProtonMail and kMail. I really like both, kMail (by Infomaniak) have very similar app interface to Gmail so you will get used to it very fast and also have big storage for free and very good offers for paid plans 👍🏼
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ProtonMail. Despite the boss likely being a conservative dogebag, their company is headquartered in Switzerland. That is the first big thing I check for my privacy and banking services. It is harder for a service to be poisoned by Yarvin’s Cabal if the service’s HQ is located in a democratic country, especially one famed for their privacy.
Proton is fairly far in delivering a polished unified experience in commonly used internet services, including mail + calendar, password manager, file/photo storage and vpn services.
Yes but the CEO publicly endorses Trump. I prefer Gmail over that mess.
Just a quick notice about proton here. While it is great, if you tend to forget your passwords be carefull beacuse you will lose all your mail history when you recover. I would reccomend something more casual for casual users.
If you use Proton and forget your passwords, it’s okay because the Proton CEO openly praised a US president who has a history of breaking privacy laws and is actively antagonizing allies. With that moral compass running Proton, your privacy and security might be compromised at a later date.
Wasnt this just one message on X? Though I understand Everyone’s worries. Isn’t Proton a company with a board of directors and a binding mission statement. I am sincerely wondering if the whole thing isn’t blown up too much. For me I am with proton for now and keeping my ear to the ground concerning any developments. But in short Proton is a safe and secure EU based alternative for Gmail right now, wouldn’t you agree?
Proton’s whole mission statement is based around privacy so it would take a big shift in the company to actually start registering and selling data… at least that’s my perspective. I’m curious to see if any more developments will occur concerning their CEO
https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i2nz9v/on_politics_and_proton_a_message_from_andy/
Here is his response, he only apologized for using the official brand account. It’s wise to look for alternatives, and he should suffer Musk like consequences.
That second sentence could do with a disambiguating comma…
Oooh i see i will edit it and add comma
“Needs client app” is a funny way of saying it “supports open protocols as first class citizens”.
Where’s DisRoot, man/girl ?
Why is Kmail in there?
Kmail is a client: it can’t host.
the whole suit is called ksuite: https://ksuite.infomaniak.com/
they have an app to sync and it’s free (20G)
Thanks! I just signed up.
Because it’s not the Kmail you think of, but kmail from them: https://www.infomaniak.com/
Hmmmm likes like a domain host… Plus productivity suite. I’m confused how to sign up for just and email address
I think you have to be from the European Union to get a free email, but if you register a domain with them you get a free email attached, no matter where you are.
I looked into that also, but it requires a full name, phone number and address. I’m a bit put off by this.
Not EU, only Switzerland, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Italy, Austria, Spain and Monaco.
Oh nice hadn’t heard of KMail and I’m trying to degoogle. Proton’s fine but the owner is another tool so options are nice
Oh it’s KDE even better
KMail is not a service by KDE, you probably confused it with KMail, the mail client by KDE. It’s a service by Infomaniak.
It was also pretty hard to find information about it, searching for “ikmail” will get you there easier. I also found out it’s technically not available in Canada yet, although I’m sure this shouldn’t be too hard to circumvent.
Yeah, I’m not sure why the creator of the image used KMail when the name is not even used by Infomaniak themselves.
It used to be kmail until very recently I believe
Thanks for clarifying! I’m new ~~
I am using Proton for many years and I can not be happier. They are adding features and new services every month. Fully recommend . If you want to try the email plus you can use my referral: https://pr.tn/ref/W467S6SS1VP0
Cheers
https://mailfence.com/ Belgian, 1Gb
https://www.gmx.com/ German Restrictions: 50MB attachments. Require an alternate email to sign up.
@Blaze @yunohost and @coopcloud allow you to self host.
mailbox.org has a web app, so no need for a client app.
And Posteo also supports POP3, IMAP and SMTP, so you can use every mail client with support for it.I’m in the US and wanted to switch from Gmail to a privacy focused European email provider, so I paid for a year of Posteo and so far I’ve been really happy with it. The service is excellent, it’s inexpensive and their ethics/values as an organization are wonderful.
Back then I was deciding between Posteo and mailbox.
I choose mailbox because, at least at the time, they had unlimited calendars and Posteo only offered 3 free ones.
Also the website of mailbox seemed more respectable / unspectacular / boring than Posteo. Posteos website got me some typical start-up vibes, means hoping for fast growth and quick exit. But there I guess I was wrong.
No Nazi supporters please
It might not be for everyone but you could grab a domain + webspace for like 2€/month.
aaaand its blocked for spam.
yeah good luck getting through all the spam filtering, and dealing with spam.
@Blaze @yunohost and @coopcloud allow you to self host.
I switched over to Proton a few weeks ago, so far so good. They had my name available so no more weird convoluted email address anymore yay!
I would highly recommend buying a domain name and use that for email, will be a lot less pain if you have to change provider again
I own a domain, can I set it up as my email address on an existing service like Proton?
