Fastmail and bring your own domain is the way.
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I'm happy with Fastmail. Making masked emails is great to me, and you can bring your own domain with you. It also is integrated with 1password.
Iirc my email on proton is encrypted. I believe I set it up that way. Good provider for me.
Before the CEO of Proton came out as a nutjob I might have been inclined to agree...
I use mailbox.org with my own domains. And I encrypt my inbox using a PGP key I manage myself.
My setup is pretty much the same what Proton gives out of the box, I just manage my own keys rather than replying on the company.
Yes, my provider can see my unencrypted mails before my key encrypts it, but I trust them enough and I don't pass sensitive information using emails.
As always, I recommend Posteo. It's cheap (1€/mo), allows third party apps and at least their website doesn't have any trackers or ads. Probably the best paid one out there.
If you want a standards-based service without bullshit and with custom domain support, I can recommend Purelymail.
Thanks for the suggestion, looks like a good service. I might switch!
Purelymail has been in beta since 2019. I am not sure if that is a good email provider.
I’ve been using it for several months now and haven’t run into any issues.
That's not the point. How can a software like this be in beta for 6 years? The developers clearly don't care about it much.
... I'm not a purelymail user or know much about it... But, I guess I am old now...
I'm guessing the service being in beta for 6 years is a joke. It's a reference to Gmail being in beta forever.
Namecrane is hella cheap for lifetime rnow 70$ 250gb storage 15 sites, or 10$ a year reocurring 100gb storage 15 sites (I have this one), fast and easy to setup.
they take a day or two to verify purchase of plan initially tho was pending forever
Bring your own domain.
You don't want to be locked in to one mail provider for life. Just bring your domain when you leave.
I've had mine since 2010. First on Gmail, then proton and now purelymail. Gmail is evil. Proton is pricy, and more so if you have several domains. Purelymail is very affordable in comparison.
I use Tuta for multiple domains and it's been an amazing experience so far.
I run https://port87.com/
It’s not quite ready to bring in your own domain, but it works for an email on @port87.com, and you get basically unlimited email addresses. I’m trying to grow it by word of mouth for now, and when it’s ready for business class email (own domain, user management, etc) I’m going to advertise it.
Note that Proton is cool even if not encrypted. I have pretty much a single contact who uses it and all the other messages are thus unencrypted. Still feels good to not use Gmail.
Emails between a Proton address to another Proton address are encrypted, except the subject line (idk why they don't encrypt that too? 🤷♂️)
Depending on how you feel about current leadership, you should probably be aware of comments made by Proton’s ceo
I know, but I'm tired of it. So he's a rich dick. Everything I do gives money to some rich dick. Everything you do does so as well. And I'm tired of making my life harder just so a different rich dick gets my money.
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I recently set up some domains with FastMail at the recommendation of some other Lemmy users. Cheap, easy setup, all the features I wanted, and problem free so far!
I use FastMail as well. I actually went from FastMail to Proton, and then back to FastMail.
I configure a lot of my home networking equipment and servers to send me emails for things like installing software updates, reboots, and any possible security issues. I couldn’t make that work with Proton not supporting any standard mail protocols (I know about Bridge, but it requires a GUI, and I didn’t want to use a third party program).
Yep, FastMail has been great in my experience! I use a few domains with them. Never had any issues.
I've been with them for 6 years and haven't looked back.
Personally I've heard very good things about mailbox.org
It can be paid anonymously, if you want. There is no (real) free option, and you didn't mention if you were only looking at those, but your examples are mostly free.
People shit on it for lack of dkim verification (mail spoofing) but it's ok for me. If you enable beta in the setting you can even log into the webui with a normal OTP for 2fa instead of the pin+yubikey tap weird one they had before
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