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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 ππΌ
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I use eclipso.de. it's free with ads or i think 1β¬ a month premium
I made the switch from gmail to Tuta. It's very good. Has desktop app as well as mobile. Highly recommend.
Mailbox.org costs 2gb 1β¬ in light plan
What does "only web app" mean for posteo? Can you not use it with a standard mail app?
Runbox.com! I've been using them for years after Lavabit was shutdown. Based out of Norway, affordable, and privacy focused.
I've been happy with Belgian based mailfence.com for 4+ years on one of their paid plans.
I have an e-mail adres with my domain name, but my personal mail is still Gmail. However I'm looking into changing that. I'm thinking about proton mail but I'm not sure yet. I'm trying to do research into what's best long term.
I think it would also be worth to mention Zoho mail, they're mainly focused on the business side, but they do offer it for free as well up to some point.
Zoho also offers quite a few clones of Google products as a service too.
Quick edit: Forever free plan: Free up to 5 users (5GB/user). One free custom domain (in other words, bring your own domain if you have one!)
Zoho when Iast used was hot trash. I say this with the perspective that office is the gold standard, google docs does ok if you don't have a lot of weird demands and are ok with googles opinionated (ie everything changes every 3 seconds) behaviors. If gdocs are tier 2, Zoho is 4
Thanks for the list
Where is Startmail? It is the best e-mail service in the EU. It is not free, but you are not its bargaining chip so.
I wouldn't say it's the best, but it is an option. They are based in Netherlands and they have servers there which is cool.
Proton
I felt like leaving gmail for proton was like moving from X to BS. So I bought my own domain via OVH in France and Iβm happy with that. If OVH starts going downhill Iβll move my domain somewhere else.
If you're happy with OVH as it is, then I don't think it can get much worse.
I really wish OVH would get it together and be a serious competitor to other (US) cloud providers...
I donβt like to say that Iβm happy because it could always be improved, but Iβm hosting websites with OVH for personal projects and clients since the 2000 era, so far it has been reliable and stable.
Do you have other serious competitors in mind ?
I think web hosting shouldn't be an issue either way, but once you're scaling up and trying to use more of their stack, the seams start to crack.
Realistically, I don't think there's any good competitor, or not at a scale which would make sense. Finding local/regional cloud providers is usually not an issue.
At larger scale, it feels like we're stuck between a rock and a hard place, with US cloud providers on the one hand and CN ones on the other, and barely any serious competitor outside of that - OVH would be an option, if reliability, tech support, performance and features are not a priority...
That's my personal takeaway anyway, from professional experience with OVH over the past 5 years.
Are you aware of recent events? Leadership has shown themselves to be fascist apologists.
yes, one comment saying that republicans do one thing right means exactly what you wrote
Proton is really far in delivering a polished unified experience in commonly used internet services, including mail + calendar, password manager, file/photo storage and vpn services.