Your guide to finding a new Email provider and supporting European companies!
The hope is that this guide and website can act as a simple way to introduce newcomers - whether it's you, friends or family - into this space and try something else besides the default options.
There is also a community-driven, open-source site ( https://purchasewithpurpose.eu/category/email/ ) that aims to make this even easier. This includes screenshots, ratings and a larger feature list.
I've also started tracking impact to help keep the momentum. If there are any other stats, please share them so I can add them to the guides and, eventually, the website.
As always, I more than welcome criticism and ideas!
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I’ve been using Tuta, and while I like them as a company and for their privacy, it bothers me that I have to use their email client. It increases switching costs for me because I can’t use the same client as my previous as I switch. I also don’t like the client. I understand why they do it - to control privacy, but I don’t see why I shouldn’t have the choice and why for example using Thunderbird doesn’t still comply with that.
I don’t trust proton because of its right wing expressions. Infomaniak is (to my knowledge) not focusing on privacy.
I also switched to Tuta recently and wasn't aware until just now that it doesn't support IMAP because I hadn't gotten around to trying to set it up yet. Having found that out, I completely agree with you. It's true that supporting IMAP would be less secure, but it should be my choice as the customer (and yes, I am the customer because I'm not on the free tier) if I want to knowingly make that trade-off.
I'm still not sure if I want to switch to Tuta, Proton or Mailbox...
To me, Proton seems like the one that will enshittificate the fastest. But I could be wrong, tho. Anyone has any opinions, insights, things that could be insightful?
On their profile I actually note that for Proton: https://purchasewithpurpose.eu/software/502XMZgodpzlHVkhrmJMYd/
People in the community are already raising concerns that they are too focused on pushing new tools out rather than improving the ones they already have. Mailbox.org, Tuta and Posteo would be better choices if you are looking for an email-first provider.
+1 for Mailbox. Turned a fan since I started using it seriously. Actually it can do much more as it replaced the whole Google Suite for me. Especially the office capabilities are quite astounding.
I am in the process of leaving proton for this and political reasons. Im looking at mailbox and tuta but still haven't decided.
thanks! and also very much appreciate the overview!
Why not try one at a time?
Or do what I did and switch to all of them. One can never have too many email addresses :P
Way too much over-engineered to be useful for any newcomers. Not informative at all without tons of additional explanation.
Fastmail servers are still in the US.
As far as I know they have not removed them.
Yeah I believe they still are - will add that as a disclaimer
Anyone know an EU provider that supports OIDC (or LDAP in a pinch) so it can hook up to an Authentik instance? I'm currently looking for an alternative to my US provider.
Emclient doesn't work in desktop on Linux...
Switched to mailbox.org a few months ago. Happy about it, especially since the recent redesign.
@FallenWalnut Fastmail is dependent on US cloud infra to deliver their service. So if you're switching providers to avoid US control then this might be worth keeping in mind.
@FallenWalnut and I see someone else commented this already, oops!