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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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[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 hours ago

"Needs client app" is a funny way of saying it "supports open protocols as first class citizens".

[–] _LordMcNuggets_@feddit.org 2 points 3 hours ago

Anyone got experience with kMail?

[–] allo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

Really wanted Email.CZ to work but it sticks on verifying my phone for my account :(

[–] petaqui@lemmings.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Mailo from France is another option

[–] rooroo@feddit.org 154 points 17 hours ago (24 children)

Fuck Proton and their Trumps-ass-kissing CEO though.

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[–] GingerBear@lemm.ee 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I tried

  • Proton - too expensive
  • Tuta - too limited
  • infomaniak - i like it, but also limited

Created new domain name in cloudflare and got free account at zoho. It's free badic account, but with a symbolic gesture of 0.9 euro a month, you also get smtp, IMAP etc... and it plays very well with cloudflare!

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

What was missing with tuta?

[–] JustEnoughDucks 4 points 3 hours ago

Probably the ability to use alternative clients like Thunderbird.

I also miss that on tuta. Their client is pretty barebones.

[–] GreatBlue@infosec.pub 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] unsettlinglymoist@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] GreatBlue@infosec.pub 1 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 31 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 28 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

KMail is not a service by KDE, you probably confused it with KMail, the mail client by KDE. It's a service by Infomaniak.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Thanks for clarifying! I'm new ~~

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[–] matelt@feddit.uk 17 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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!

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 13 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] easily3667@lemmus.org 16 points 16 hours ago

No Nazi supporters please

[–] rooroo@feddit.org 21 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

You don’t need a client app for mailbox.org? I use it just fine on any standard mail client.

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Proton, no thanks to the Government of Putin supporters. Tuta could be the winner for me.

[–] Legume5534@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours ago

Some of the takes in here are bonkers.

[–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Switzerland supports putin?

[–] sudneo@lemm.ee 7 points 3 hours ago

Proton also donated money to Ukraine in 2022. Some people simply live on a separate reality.

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 hours ago

Switzerland supports putin?

I dunno man, Wikipedia says otherwise.

The country has a history of armed neutralitygoing back to the Reformation; it has not been in a state of war internationally since 1815[5][6] apart from the Sonderbund War(Switzerland civil war), joining the League of Nations in 1920[5] and did not join the United Nations until 2002.[7] It pursues an active foreign policy and is frequently involved in peace-building processes around the world.[8][9]

On February 28, 2022, Switzerland imposed economic sanctions on Russia and froze a significant amount of assets held by Russian civilians and companies as "punishment" for the invasion of Ukraine. Some described this as "a sharp deviation from the country's traditional neutrality."[10] According to Swiss president Ignazio Cassis in 2022 during a World Economic Forum speech, the laws of neutrality for Switzerland are based on The Hague agreement principles which include "no participation in wars; international cooperation but no membership in any military alliance; no provision of troops or weapons to warring parties and no granting of transition rights".[11

[–] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Buy a domain and just use a ISP of your choice, don't lock in again with another domain not under your control.

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