Looking for opinions on email providers

[Matthew Crews]

On 1/28/24 22:14, Steven via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Apparently I am late to hearing this, but in the near future Cox will 
> have Yahoo take over handling all "cox.net" email accounts. I've 
> occasionally in the past looked at email providers but never felt much 
> need to move. But as long as this is going to be happening anyway I 
> figure it's time to look again. Does anyone have a preferred email 
> provider? I made use of Cox formerly offering up to six email accounts 
> on a single residential plan to set up an account for my sister, this 
> account, and a couple others. Are there reasonably trustworthy 
> providers that don't scan all your emails in order to push ads on you 
> and that don't don't cost an arm and a leg?

I've used Mailfence for a long time, and for the price (€42 a year, or 
about US$45 a year depending on currency exchange rates) they are pretty 
feature rich.

-Custom Domain support (with catch-all email address)
-IMAP support (for using an email client)
-PGP Encryption support through the web client
-10GB storage for email
-Located in Belgium, strengthening privacy requirements (in theory).

The only other paid services I would recommend are Tutanota or 
Protonmail, but...

-Tutanota does NOT support IMAP (and therefore does NOT support 
downloading your email to an email client like Thunderbird)
-Protonmail is more expensive compared to all of the above, but their 
security is unparalleled.

If you need free email, and you need lots of storage space, then 
unfortunately the only other reasonable solution is Gmail, and we know 
why Gmail cannot be trusted.

-Matt