Hello, I am thinking on which email provider to use as an alternative for Gmail.
I don’t expect E2EE because I know nobody who uses either Tutanota or Proton Mail personally. I just want an alternative to Gmail, where I can message people I know who use Gmail securely.
EDIT: I have chosen my email provider as Proton Mail because I can send encrypted emails not only to people using Proton Mail, but to people who don’t too, which I feel is better.
Thanks for the link!
It seems that Proton Mail is better for my use case. I’ll keep my Tutanota account as a backup then.
I am not willing to pay for a service atm
Since we’re on a privacy forum I want to point out that if you’re not paying for a product you are not the customer you are a product. If you want to make privacy alternatives to Google viable you should consider financially supporting them .
This brings up a good point I hadn’t thought of mentioning before. You should really use your own custom domain name for email. That makes migrating the different services much easier and you don’t have to change your email address with your friends. Your own domain usually requires a paid service one for the domain registrar itself, and the mail provider. All the services we talked about today charge money for custom domains but it’s worth it
If by ”backup” you mean “infrequently used”, be careful about using Tutanota for that purpose - it will delete free accounts after 6 months of inactivity.
Personally I use Proton for my mail needs but then Tutanota for my calendar. Perhaps something you could consider so your Tutanota account doesn’t get deleted.
Please consider at least a low cost service, it really raises the quality of the service a lot if it’s even $1 a month like Posteo or $2 like Migadu. You get a lot of genuinely useful features (unlike super-hyped services like Proton) and it removes any incentive to exploit or upsell you.