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Trying to de-google and looking for an alternative to Gmail.

Don't mind if it's a paid service if it's robust.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Also is there an alternative to Google Docs?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Cryptpad is pretty nice!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Haven't used it much, but looks promising:

https://skiff.com/pages

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I'm using Posteo and have absolutely no problem with it. The base price is 1โ‚ฌ/month and for my purposes I haven't needed to buy any extra stuff (like extra space or aliases). It also allows access via mail clients by IMAP and POP, which is something I've seen many popular gmail alternatives not providing, despite being IMO a pretty important feature.

You mentioned storage space is important for you. The default size is 2.0 GB, but you can acquire more by paying +0,25โ‚ฌ/month for every extra gigabyte up to a maximum total of 20 GB.

It should be noted however that it is a German company and therefore has to comply with German laws.

The one thing I'm not really convinced by is their approach to spam. The web interface doesn't provide any way to define rules to filter out spam except for filter exceptions, but the service already filters out spam for you and it will never reach your inbox. I would normally think that's a bad idea, but I've never received any spam nor have I noticed any mail going missing (except for my lemmy.ml registration mail which I remember I had problems with but I don't remember if it was Posteo's fault and if yes if it was their spam filter in which case it could be allowed to reach your inbox by adding it as an exception).

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

But you cannot have your own domain on posteo as far as i know.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Underrated comment. Posteo is awesome, cheap, and has all the tools you need for mail and calendar things. Proton may give you more, but that's a different query.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I wanted my own domain and a good integration with android but I didn't want to give my data to microsoft so I went with https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/emails/hosted-exchange/

Had no issues so far for the last 2-3 years.

It's cheaper than protonmail and you're not locked to a specific application since Exchange is well supported.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Protonmail but i prefer Tutanota made in Germany 100 % Privacy :D

Proton is too slow with updates usw

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Protonmail and Tutanota seem like your best bets, big providers like to sort others in the spam folder tho!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Been using Proton mail a couple months now. Very happy with it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Proton mail for serious stuff and cock.li mail for fun stuff.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)
  • Tutanota
  • Protonmail
  • Mailbox.org
  • Posteo.de
  • Runbox
  • Fastmail

I would recommend either Mailbox or Posteo simply because they cost 1โ‚ฌ/m. For email I find that anything more than like $2 is a waste of money, but that is my opinion.

Both Tutanota and Protonmail offer freemium versions of their services.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Tutanota's pretty cool.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Not for everyone, but self-hosting isn't so bad.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Get your own domain and sign up with Opalstack.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

The closest in features would be Infomaniak.

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