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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 πŸ‘πŸΌ

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[–] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Buy a domain and just use a ISP of your choice, don't lock in again with another domain not under your control.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 0 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Although depending on your configuration, it might be a battle against spammers.

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[–] BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Tuta has been GREAT, so far. Hard recommend.

[–] Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 2 points 18 hours ago

I started used it a month ago. I like it so far and was east to setup with my domain. I also recommend this.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 9 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Disroot is based in the netherlands i believe.

https://disroot.org/en

From their page:

β€œDisroot is a platform providing online services based on principles of freedom, privacy, federation and decentralization.

No tracking, no ads, no profiling, no data mining!”

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[–] snuggledick@lemm.ee 10 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Been using mailbox.org for a couple of years and I'm quite happy with it. Don't know what "needs client app" is supposed to mean though. If you don't want to use a mail client you can use the web interface. I've used maildroid on Android with it and when it was discontinued switched to Thunderbird, both work fine with mailbox.org.

There's one tiny minor annoyance, they somehow automatically create a new "archive" folder for every year that the web interface uses when you hit the archive button but in your mail client you gotta change the preferences manually once a year. Don't know if you can change but it's such a minor inconvenience I never bothered to check.

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[–] picklejar@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 13 hours ago

I've been happy with Belgian based mailfence.com for 4+ years on one of their paid plans.

[–] treno_rosso@feddit.org 2 points 13 hours ago

I use eclipso.de. it's free with ads or i think 1€ a month premium

[–] EuropeanMade@feddit.uk 2 points 14 hours ago

I have an e-mail adres with my domain name, but my personal mail is still Gmail. However I'm looking into changing that. I'm thinking about proton mail but I'm not sure yet. I'm trying to do research into what's best long term.

[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 1 points 12 hours ago

Thanks for the list

[–] bluelander@lemmy.ml 1 points 12 hours ago

Runbox.com! I've been using them for years after Lavabit was shutdown. Based out of Norway, affordable, and privacy focused.

[–] VeryInterestingTable@lemm.ee 5 points 18 hours ago

I made the switch from gmail to Tuta. It's very good. Has desktop app as well as mobile. Highly recommend.

[–] adbenitez@lemmy.ml 1 points 12 hours ago

If what you want is encrypted email, and see it in the form of a chat, take a look at ArcaneChat

[–] trashpanda@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 18 hours ago

Mailbox.org costs 2gb 1€ in light plan

[–] exchange12rocks@lemm.ee 4 points 17 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

What does "only web app" mean for posteo? Can you not use it with a standard mail app?

[–] calisti@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

It just doesn’t have its own app. There is no custom, useless Posteo app.

Which nobody needs, since there’s IMAP and SMTP, so you can use any normal Mail app.

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 1 points 16 hours ago

Better than anything. I like using Thunderbird.

[–] finalaccountforreal@lemm.ee 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Been using Posteo since around 2015. They're great.

[–] calisti@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 18 hours ago

Same. Posteo is fantastic.

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)
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[–] zutto@lemmy.fedi.zutto.fi 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

I think it would also be worth to mention Zoho mail, they're mainly focused on the business side, but they do offer it for free as well up to some point.

Zoho also offers quite a few clones of Google products as a service too.

Quick edit: Forever free plan: Free up to 5 users (5GB/user). One free custom domain (in other words, bring your own domain if you have one!)

[–] easily3667@lemmus.org 0 points 14 hours ago

Zoho when Iast used was hot trash. I say this with the perspective that office is the gold standard, google docs does ok if you don't have a lot of weird demands and are ok with googles opinionated (ie everything changes every 3 seconds) behaviors. If gdocs are tier 2, Zoho is 4

[–] mendace@feddit.it 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Where is Startmail? It is the best e-mail service in the EU. It is not free, but you are not its bargaining chip so.

[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 3 points 18 hours ago

I wouldn't say it's the best, but it is an option. They are based in Netherlands and they have servers there which is cool.

[–] FatLegTed@piefed.social 0 points 19 hours ago (3 children)
[–] Lasagna@lemmy.ml 7 points 19 hours ago

Same.

Getting a bit tired of the brigading against Proton. IMO the negativity is overblown and Proton is still a good option.

But do recommend everyone to get a custom domain so it’s easy to switch in case I’m proven wrong and Proton does turn sour.

[–] Brumefey@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I felt like leaving gmail for proton was like moving from X to BS. So I bought my own domain via OVH in France and I’m happy with that. If OVH starts going downhill I’ll move my domain somewhere else.

[–] any1th3r3@lemmy.ca 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

If you're happy with OVH as it is, then I don't think it can get much worse.
I really wish OVH would get it together and be a serious competitor to other (US) cloud providers...

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[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml -3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Are you aware of recent events? Leadership has shown themselves to be fascist apologists.

yes, one comment saying that republicans do one thing right means exactly what you wrote

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