Discussion about encrypted email providers
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Hi, I would like to open a little discussion and find out what you think about this.
What do you think about encrypted email providers? Such as Proton, Skiff, Tutanota and others.
And if maybe you already use one of these providers, your opinion why you decided to do so.
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@Fubero I tried Tutanota, stopped because it wasn’t possible using it in the Vivaldi client. If people learned to use PGP, there would be no need for encrypted email providers. The benefits are one sided—sending to a recipient with regular provider will leave your correspondence readable.
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I tried those services, but in the end I went back to Infomaniak's kSuite.
In the case of Proton, Tutanota and Skiff, the main problem is that the free plan is quite limited, because some basic features such as folders creation, tags and filters are only available in the paid plans.
In addition, these services limit the user to only use the applications that they offer.
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I liked the following mail providers: Mailo, Tutanota, Protonmail. I think, it the best.
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In my opinion, Mailfence and Disroot are better choice.Btw, Zoho,5×2,Mailo are good one also!
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@Silouan I signed up for Skiff after reading this comment and literally 2 days after it was announced that they were being shut down.
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@RiveDroite In 2022, I registered skiff page. Later, it had launched drive, mailbox, and calendar , but I didn't continue to use any of them. In my opinion, except for some external venture capital, skiff did not have a mature business model, and it was difficult to sustain its existence. Three days before skiff was acquired, I was curious to use its drive , but the uploaded files kept prompting that they could not be exported. I knew it should end!
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@undachen luckily I didn't start using it yet. I was just testing it out.
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@Silouan I'm already a Proton customer and like their services, so will be sticking to them
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@RiveDroite I am a proton user from 2015.
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@Silouan I have signed up this email, but found it is too laggy in terms of receiving and sending mail, seriously lagging up to a couple of hours!
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Not a big fan of these services. The big unknown if they decide to close up shop, perfect example being the recent closure of Skiff. The encryption also doesn't really work much if you're sending it to a free service such as gmail or outlook.
Protonmail also is asking people to pay up if users want the ability to forward their email address, I don't like that. -
mailbox org is the only one I used who support email Inbound Encryption. In this way all your new mail will be encrypted using your PGP public key before storage them. In some aspects it is safer than ProtonMail.
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Like many others here, i use ProtonMail and it serves my purposes so i am pretty happy with it
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I use Proton and Tutanota (Tuta) but primarily as IDs to various Alt Tech platforms. So I'm not using them as general purpose mail programs, but receive notifications.
There's another application (commercial) called Sekur that I've not used. But it has the feature that you can communicate securely with non-Sekur users.
