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any good safe free email service other than google and yahoo etc.?- solved.
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 8:08 am
by winemaker
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.
Re: any good safe free email service other than google and yahoo etc.?
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 8:27 am
by Buck Fankers
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/
Re: any good safe free email service other than google and yahoo etc.?
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 8:30 am
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.
Re: any good safe free email service other than google and yahoo etc.?
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 8:34 am
by winemaker
ok thanks tutunota does not work imap - i checked multiple times unless i missed something. never heard of disroot - will check it out. thanks.
Re: any good safe free email service other than google and yahoo etc.?
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 8:37 am
by winemaker
disroot is down and no one can sugnup due to some nextcloud issues or some such. this micght be good though.
Re: any good safe free email service other than google and yahoo etc.?
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 8:45 am
by wahnsinn
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.
Re: any good safe free email service other than google and yahoo etc.?
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 9:05 am
by manyroads
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.
Here are some other options...
https://hosting.review/email/free-email-hosting/
Re: any good safe free email service other than google and yahoo etc.?
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 9:07 am
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
Re: any good safe free email service other than google and yahoo etc.?
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 9:58 am
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.
Re: any good safe free email service other than google and yahoo etc.?
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 10:31 am
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