It’s me again with another question for recommendation 🙈 This time I am searching for a new Email-Provider:

Currently I am using mailbox.org (privacy-friendly provider based in Germany). Since my subscription is comming to an end there, I tought about switching to proton mail-plus. What I like about them is, that they have an easy way of creating alias-emails and also support the option to use your own domain.

But maybe you gals and guys have another great provider which offers good features for a good price.

Also: I dont need Cloud-Storage or anything like that, so just mail is fine.

Thx in regards :)

    • chappedafloat@lemmy.wtf
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      13 days ago

      do they allow you to create anonymous accounts by paying with monero? And connected via TOR browser?

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    I went through this journey looking for new providers recently after Proton started doing crypto shit. Tuta and Fastmail were the main recommendations, though the former has been accused of being a honeypot and the latter has really awful practices toward workers and unionisation.

    I went with Migadu as a no-nonsense solution, and I’m over the moon with it.

    As a big fan of decentralisation and federation, I was very tempted to try out Disroot, but I wasn’t ready to try it out with my main mailboxes. I’ll likely use it for any upcoming toy projects I embark on though.

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      They are very cheap, only $1 for 10 aliases and then then $0.1/month for any additional aliases. But can’t pay with monero.

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      Can I open an account with TOR browser and pay with monero without having to give any info like a secondary email or phone number?

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      14 days ago

      Proton purchased SimpleLogin in 2022 and the creator/dev has been working there ever since. Also, you can easily create random email aliases in Vaultwarden/Bitwarden via the SimpleLogin API.

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        Proton purchased SimpleLogin in 2022 and the creator/dev has been working there ever since.

        I knew this, I’m trying not to keep my eggs in one basket.

        Also, you can easily create random email aliases in Vaultwarden/Bitwarden via the SimpleLogin API.

        This still requires a SimpleLogin/Proton account, so there’s no added benefit. Plus, this is true for Addy as well.

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      13 days ago

      Fair warning though, using a service like addy.io with randomly generated emails can go bad if they ever shutdown, you’ll be left with tons of accounts on email addresses that no longer exist.

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        13 days ago

        It’s better than using the same email for everything, which still runs the same risk. I try to minimize the services I use that require an email for this very reason. I will note, self hosting + addy.io provides much more control with the same benefits and drawbacks.

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    Somehow I always end up hating Proton. I was using TOR Browser to create an account and they wouldn’t let me. I had to give either another email or my phone number, and I’m not willing to do either. I even tried creating a throwaway with mailbox.org (works using TOR) and sending the confirmation email there but it never arrived, so I gave up on Proton.

    I also tried Tuta and they wouldn’t let me create an account at all using TOR. So eventually I’m sticking with mailbox.org

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      14 days ago

      This also provides you with more freedom as in freedom as you aren’t forced to use their Clients/Apps.

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        Yeah. One of the major reasons I never plan to use Proton or Tutanota is that none of my email apps will work and I will rely on whatever interface they provide.

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    they have an easy way of creating alias-emails

    With mailbox.org and other normal mail providers you should just be able to set a catch-all address, then you don’t have to create aliases at all, just type “whatever-you-want@mydomain.com

    If an email provider charges you more to create ‘aliases’ run far away and pick something else.

    I wouldn’t switch to Proton personally, they require that you use their own apps or use an IMAP bridge which doesn’t work on Android/iOS. Their ecosystem feels very restrictive.

    I don’t see the point of an encrypted email provider like Proton, since 99% of the emails we all receive aren’t encrypted anyways, and sending encrypted emails only easily works to other proton mail users.

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      oh ok, I have not tried that yet. I have only set up one address which I use yo send and receive from.

      about the encryption: I thought the point with e2ee encryption on proton is mainly, that the mails are stored encrypted one their servers so they can not read them or hand them out to anyone.

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        Basically all email is E2EE already since SSL/TLS is usually used for transport, even gmail and similar. But encrypted at rest in theory would help with stopping people from reading emails off the server.

        You also have to trust that Proton truly doesn’t have your keys to decrypt, but I imagine they do since you just login with a username/password combo and that’s enough to decrypt the emails.

        Although I don’t think it matters that much, my email is basically receiving notifications from services I use and occasional emails with a friend about planning a trip or something like that, nothing that particularly needs to be super private, just using a mail provider that isn’t actively scraping my data for ads (aka; gmail) is enough for me.

        For private communications I would use something more suited to that, like any of the reasonable E2EE chat apps.

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    Just a reminder: with Proton you can’t use IMAP for your email client, you either need their mail client (mobile) or bridge app (desktop).

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      While technically true, bridge is ultimately an IMAP server you run yourself … and they do have good reasons for this design.

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          Imap and end to end encryption are not possible at the same time.

          Bridge exposes an IMAP interface but encrypts everything as Proton would, had you used the web client.

          It solves a technical limitation.

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            oh so only when using their client I have the e2ee for the emails on their server? kind of makes sence but def. a point to take into consideration.

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              No, I think you are misunderstanding my poor explanation.

              Your emails are encrypted at rest on their server regardless if you use the web client or IMAP through the bridge.

              The thing is that the encryption layer must happen at some point in time when you communicate with their API:s. In the web client this encryption is built-in. IMAP on the other hand does not support this type of end to end encryption, so the bridge adds this layer for you.

              So you communicate unencrypted locally between your email client (Thunderbird for example) and the Protonmail bridge that you have installed locally on your computer. Then Protonmail bridge encrypts and decrypts all emails for you. So to your email client, it seems like a normal email server, but in reality everything is encrypted.

              (Standard “encrypted email” disclaimer: Your emails are not encrypted in transit unless both parties, sending and receiving, are set up for encryption. Email is otherwise not end to end encrypted in transit)