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European alternatives to Google's Gmail (europe.pub)

submitted 15 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I'm sorry, but they are an even more closed ecosystem than even Gmail: one cannot use a regular email client with Proton

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Yes! That sucks.

From what I understand, that's their way to do e2e encryption between proton emails. They have this bridge thing, which unfortunately you can't use on free plans.

Proton Mail Bridge is a desktop application that runs in the background, encrypting and decrypting messages as they enter and leave your computer. It lets you add your Proton Mail account to your favorite email client via IMAP/SMTP by creating a local email server on your computer.

https://proton.me/mail/bridge

I agree that this is a problem, and that it is worse than Google.

But for me personally, putting it all on a scale I still think it is better than having your emails mined for ads targeting.

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

Thank you for the explanation - didn't know about the bridge 👍

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

@exchange12rocks @professionalspooner @buyeuropean AFAIK with a paid subscription you can set up a bridge which would allow you to use it with Thunderbird etc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Doesn’t make it less closed though.

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

I didn't know about the bridge, thank you!