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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 ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ

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[โ€“] szczuroarturo@programming.dev 4 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Just a quick notice about proton here. While it is great if you tend to forget your passwords be carefull beacuse you will lose all your mail history when you recover. I would reccomend something more casual for casual users.

[โ€“] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 1 points 16 minutes ago

If you use Proton and forget your passwords, it's okay because the Proton CEO openly praised a US president who has a history of breaking privacy laws and is actively antagonizing allies. With that moral compass running Proton, your privacy and security might be compromised at a later date.

[โ€“] jon@lemdro.id 1 points 19 minutes ago

That second sentence could do with a disambiguating comma...

[โ€“] smik@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It might not be for everyone but you could grab a domain + webspace for like 2โ‚ฌ/month.

[โ€“] erran_morad@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

I'm happy with the Belgian mailfence

[โ€“] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 15 hours ago

"Needs client app" is a funny way of saying it "supports open protocols as first class citizens".

[โ€“] crazyhotpasta@lemm.ee 2 points 10 hours ago

I switched from gmail to gmx mail. I like it very much.

[โ€“] rooroo@feddit.org 192 points 1 day ago (26 children)

Fuck Proton and their Trumps-ass-kissing CEO though.

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[โ€“] _LordMcNuggets_@feddit.org 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Anyone got experience with kMail?

[โ€“] jnod4@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I made an account and I might be too unexperienced with these things, but it seems I have to have my own domain? I can't use a basic one? If sb can show me how to deal with that I'd appreciate it

[โ€“] roguegardener@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

I signed up last week and did not need a domain. You may need to choose a personal account. You can pick from three different email endings, I went with @ikmail.com.

So far I really like it! Switched over my google drive to IK file storage.

[โ€“] GreatBlue@infosec.pub 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

mailbox.org has a web app, so no need for a client app.
And Posteo also supports POP3, IMAP and SMTP, so you can use every mail client with support for it.

[โ€“] unsettlinglymoist@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I'm in the US and wanted to switch from Gmail to a privacy focused European email provider, so I paid for a year of Posteo and so far I've been really happy with it. The service is excellent, it's inexpensive and their ethics/values as an organization are wonderful.

[โ€“] bob_lemon@feddit.org 1 points 8 hours ago

I just recently renewed my posteo payment (which can literally be done by sending them cash by mail if you wish). It really just works. Using Thunderbird on PC and Thunderbird + DAVxโต on my phone.

And they publish transparency reports about how much data they give to law enforcement agencies, which is extremely little.

[โ€“] GreatBlue@infosec.pub 2 points 13 hours ago

Back then I was deciding between Posteo and mailbox.
I choose mailbox because, at least at the time, they had unlimited calendars and Posteo only offered 3 free ones.
Also the website of mailbox seemed more respectable / unspectacular / boring than Posteo. Posteos website got me some typical start-up vibes, means hoping for fast growth and quick exit. But there I guess I was wrong.

[โ€“] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Oh nice hadn't heard of KMail and I'm trying to degoogle. Proton's fine but the owner is another tool so options are nice

Oh it's KDE even better

[โ€“] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 33 points 1 day ago (4 children)

KMail is not a service by KDE, you probably confused it with KMail, the mail client by KDE. It's a service by Infomaniak.

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