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Who needs 500GB storage for emails as a private person?
is that only for mails?
~~I think it's shared with the calendar as well. But again, who needs 500GB for email or calendar?~~
Edit: Yes, it is only for email.
Kinda my thought, too. Was using Google for years and never hit the 15GB cap. Seems like overkill.
They had a premium tier before, that was just 1€ a month. I cancelled it last year. If you are open to trying other services, I recommend Posteo. They are a paid service, but it only costs 1€ a month. They also support IMAP and POP3 OOTB, unlike Tutanota.
Side note, by going to a service with IMAP and POP3 your emails will be much less secure. One of the benefits to tuta is the high level of privacy and security, and that is achieved through the encryption done with the apps you are forced use, and IMAP POP3 etc won't work as a result .
What they are doing is achieved by both Posteo and Mailbox by encrypting incoming emails at the server with your PGP public key WHILE supporting IMAP/POP3. The email client can then decrypt it with the private key.
Yes, PGP encryption does lack encrypting some stuff (like the subject), but this also will not be an excuse once email providers and clients start using JMAP, which uses HTTPS.
not sure about tuta, but proton doesn't encrypt the subject anyway
They don't support custom domains, so it's a no-go for me. I understand why they don't, but I use my own domain so it's easier to switch providers.
So with a custom domain, do you just have your domain and add it to SecureEmail as your address? Then if you want to move, you just cancel the SecureService and add your domain to another service?
If I understand you correctly, yes.
I have my domain pointing mail DNS records to Tuta, and I registered that domain w/ Tuta so it's associated w/ my account. If I switch, I just register the domain w/ another service and point my mail DNS records to that other service. Tuta won't necessarily know that I've switched providers (unless they check my DNS records), they'll just stop receiving mail. It's on me to move whatever emails I want to the new service.
That's a lot less painful than changing my address, since I would have to go and change my address everywhere. This requires no changes to any services I use or to my contacts.
I have two domains, so I can move just one if I want.
Oh, cool. That's not unlike how I use addy.io. I have aliases for individual services that use the subdomain they gave me, and they forward to my Tuta address. If I want to leave Tuta and go to Mailbox.org (for example), I just have to tell addy.io to forward to that new email.
Thanks for the explanation! I've been thinking about getting my own domain.