Originally posted at ShopCanadianStuff.ca/blog which has no affiliation to NorthMail.ca
I noticed NorthMail.ca which I had previously only know for being a Canadian hosted and owned free webmail provider was now listing Video Calls and an office suite as features.
Oddly enough Northmail was featured in a recent monologue joke on Late Night with Seth Meyers. You can see the joke on TikTok here or at 7:15 on this YouTube video of the show.
I tried out the video calling and it works pretty well though it is not obvious how to do it.
I made a brief guide on how to use the video calling feature in this blog post at ShopCanadianStuff.ca/blog
NorthMail.ca has many other features, a calendar, file and photo storage, dark mode and other theme customization. Language settings allow for both English and French as well as many other languages.
The paid premium version of NorthMail.ca provides 100 GB of storage (1GB for free version), no ads, and promises a faster smoother experience for $0.99/month.
If you sign up soon you can get a pretty good pick of the available email addresses so you don't have to go with something as long a BuyCanadianElbowsUp_1867@NorthMail.ca unless you want something that long.
If anyone is concerned about if Northmail.ca is actually Canadian, the owners name is listed on their website, I checked their linked in page which lists the same person as their CIRA domain registration.
To find more Canada made products and services check out ShopCanadianStuff.ca
This is one I'm really struggling with.
I'm willing to seperate my email to something like this (and pay for the space)
I'm willing to pay for Ente for photos
And I'm willing to pay for a different cloud service for storage
But my problem is that with Google, it's all in one and my wife and kids certainly aren't willing to fracture like that.
Is there a Canadian or European alternative that does it all much like Google or Apple?
Proton
😢 sucks that they screwed their image over like that. I had been contemplating pulling the trigger on their ecosystem for months.
pCloud does just about all of that except email. So does Nextcloud and Cozy Cloud
I really like the idea, but if someone is going to put in the work to change over their main online identity to a new email address, it’s not ideal to change over to an address of a random company. It’s a lot of work, and think of the accounts that use your email for logging in, the friends that may email very rarely, etc. Consider using one that supports a custom domain and buying your own. That way you can move providers whenever you want. Barring that, I would make sure the company has been providing email reliably for at least a decade, preferably two, before investing in it as a main email. Email is a long term thing. As a secondary email account?, give it a try. Everyone should have a few anyway.