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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

migadu.com, it's a Swiss company with servers in France (great privacy laws). You can host multiple domains and unlimited mailboxes on the same account, which starts at $20/year. They limit on numbers of emails sent/received (200/20/day on the smallest account) and on total account space (5 GB smallest), not on features. You can host multiple domains, multiple mailboxes, multiple aliases, individual login per mailbox, TLS connections, IMAP/SMTP/POP/webmail and all the features you can think of.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Proton is my fav non Google email.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Proton and Tutanota are the most privacy-focused ones, offering zero-access encryption. The flipside is that they are a bit more expensive and less easy to use with third party email clients.

There are a number of alternatives like mailbox.org, Posteo and Fastmail which are cheaper, and less private than the above two but arguably still better for privacy than Gmail (in that their whole business model isn't built off capturing and monetising your data).

Personally I use mailbox.org and have no complaints. I use it with third party clients like Thunderbird for desktop and FairEmail for Android so can't speak to how good their web UI is.

I also strongly recommend getting your own domain name to use with your email. It means if you ever want to switch providers in future you won't need to change your email address.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I use Soho, supports custom domain, plenty of good features, it's like Β£12 a year and EU based / privacy focused.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Depends on where you're from, but I had good experiences with mailbox.org

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

The closest in features would be Infomaniak.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

mailinabox gives you email, calendar, tasks, and nextcloud apps if you're willing to setup your own VPS and suffer through some setup, about $10-20/month

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I'm running my own mail server at home. It wasn't all that difficult to set up, using SNM.

The biggest hassle happens when my home IP changes (that's when my router dies for longer than the DHCP lease time), andI have to re-allowlist my home IP in Office365 and whatever the other one was. I get an automated response to the 1st email I send, with instructions how to unblock my IP.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (5 children)

You can always pay for your own mailserver. I personally like it that people can reach me a [email protected]. Maybe it is something for you?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I signed up for MailRoute lifetime* account when Google threatened to pull the grandfathered free workspace account.

It’s fine, I email using Spark everywhere anyway. Spam filter could be better. Other than that, everything is back to normal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

For me it would be an alternative to Google drive and it's office web apps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It's not perfect by a long shot, but Nextcloud works okay. I actually host it on my home server under docker and use ddns to reach it remotely. Besides my opnsense vpn, it's the only thing I have open to the internet.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Zoho is a good alternative.

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