any good safe free email service other than google and yahoo etc.?- solved.

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winemaker
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any good safe free email service other than google and yahoo etc.?- solved.

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i use protonmail and like it a lot. however - with linux i believe that imap is not possible unless you pay for it. i also believe that mac and win had that for free. weird given that the poeple apparently work at CERN and run linux and i believe debian. when i contacted them to use proton mail as imap as a tester they said you have to pay - to test? that was crazy. i hate web mail and rather go through thunderbird. THIS is the only downside to protonmail for me. also i would rather them not collect and for me to HAVE to give them mobile numbers etc to register. thannks anyone.
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winemaker wrote: Tue Nov 26, 2019 8:08 am i use protonmail and like it a lot. however - with linux i believe that imap is not possible unless you pay for it. i also believe that mac and win had that for free. weird given that the poeple apparently work at CERN and run linux and i believe debian. when i contacted them to use proton mail as imap as a tester they said you have to pay - to test? that was crazy. i hate web mail and rather go through thunderbird. THIS is the only downside to protonmail for me. also i would rather them not collect and for me to HAVE to give them mobile numbers etc to register. thannks anyone.
Tutanota mail is on my to-do list. Opensource, easy end to end encryption, was told it works in Linux, does uses it's own email client, if I understand correctly, because of encryption/privacy settings, 1GB free (double of Proton Mail)... can't tell you more, didn't set it up yet

https://tutanota.com/howto

https://tutanota.com/faq

https://nordvpn.com/blog/tutanota/

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#3 Post by wahnsinn »

I can recommend: https://disroot.org/en/services/email

disroot can be used with Thunderbird, Evolution, K9 Mail (Android), Email (IOS) and the web interface. IMAP and POP is possible.
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ok thanks tutunota does not work imap - i checked multiple times unless i missed something. never heard of disroot - will check it out. thanks.

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disroot is down and no one can sugnup due to some nextcloud issues or some such. this micght be good though.

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winemaker wrote: Tue Nov 26, 2019 8:34 am never heard of disroot - will check it out. thanks.
https://proprivacy.com/review/disroot

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/disroot-e ... ail-cloud/
winemaker wrote: Tue Nov 26, 2019 8:34 am disroot is down and no one can sugnup due to some nextcloud issues or some such. this micght be good though.
It'll be fine. disroot is a project and non-profit organisation based in Amsterdam / Netherlands. It is managed by volunteers and depends on community support. Disroot is a collection of open, decentralized, allied tools for communication, file sharing, organizing, respecting your freedom and privacy.
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winemaker wrote: Tue Nov 26, 2019 8:37 am disroot is down and no one can sugnup due to some nextcloud issues or some such. this micght be good though.
@winemaker setting up your own server is fairly trivial and only requires you have a domain name, assuming you self-host on a raspberrypi or old pc. You can have any type of mail you wan then smtp or imap. It's only don when you break it or your power is out. :eek: :bagoverhead:

Here are some other options...
https://hosting.review/email/free-email-hosting/
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#8 Post by Buck Fankers »

wahnsinn wrote: Tue Nov 26, 2019 8:30 am I can recommend: https://disroot.org/en/services/email

disroot can be used with Thunderbird, Evolution, K9 Mail (Android), Email (IOS) and the web interface. IMAP and POP is possible.

disroot is a project and non-profit organisation based in Amsterdam / Netherlands. It is managed by volunteers and depends on community support. Disroot is a collection of open, decentralized, allied tools for communication, file sharing, organizing, respecting your freedom and privacy.
This looks interesting, thanks for sharing!
Hope I can get Claws working with it

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#9 Post by winemaker »

still down and want to try it badly.

i used to have domains and also hosting but since i stopped business i am done with that stuff. also way too dumb to start up a server on a machine unfortunately. thanks Mark! wish i could do it though. that would work nicely for my needs.

protonmail ahs been good - had one dns attack that lasted a few days nce and a couple of shorter times like minutes or an hr but pretty much uptime is good.

just hate webmail and always have.

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#10 Post by andyprough »

It's not free, but Zoho mail claims that they give IMAP access on 5GB per user accounts (5 users - so 25GB?) for $1 a month. I haven't tried it, but plan to check out their free non-IMAP account one of these days to see how well it works and if it's worth the $1 a month. They claim to have good privacy protection.
https://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing.html
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