Submitted by Dirtbagleftist in freeAsInFreedom
I've done a bit of research and every service I've come across is either free and secure, but is still monitored, and when it is completely secure, it has an annual fee.
Any suggestions?
Submitted by Dirtbagleftist in freeAsInFreedom
I've done a bit of research and every service I've come across is either free and secure, but is still monitored, and when it is completely secure, it has an annual fee.
Any suggestions?
You aren't going to find something that's free as in freedom, free as in beer, secure, and private.
Protonmail is pretty good, but it's not free software.
If you want the best possible email experience, host your own. There's been plenty of self-hosted email services posted to /f/freeasinfreedom.
Seconding self-hosted. It used to be much more of a pain. But Ive heard great things about solutions like Mail-in-a-box that make it much, much easier.
Obviously self-hosted wont be for everyone, but if you have the skills this is the best, most controlled, and secure (if configures properly) method.
I figured that much.
Thanks anyway. I'll check that out later!
Yeah, I'm actually required to use Google services for school.
Yeah, their platform is really nice (nextcloud, mail, matrix instance, diaspora instance, collaborative tools, etc).
Let them eat PGP.
I use tutanota for web mail, it is GPLv3 and has a free version*, it uses end to end encryption by default and you have one alias, however the servers are in Germany which I believe it's part of the eyes but you get EU privacy laws. It does not support IMAP and is not as feature rich as Gmail.
* The paid version increases the amount of storage, have more alias and can set your own domain among other stuff which I don't care about. Unless you really want those, you're not missing much.
Eh, if i'm going to go down the route of setting up an email host i'd rather learn how to do it and do it myself. The only person I know with experience in that area is my Dad, and as you can probably imagine he might be a little suspicious as to why I need my own host.
Aw you don't trust little ol' me?
I don't think I've seen many of your posts. But if you post a lot here, and generally show yourself to be a good person, then sure.
Hah. Yeah, fair enough. I've been told it isn't that hard though.
I have been using https://www.autistici.org/ since quite a while and they rock
If you don't mind doing a little reading Linode has some good tutorials here: https://www.linode.com/docs/email .
That may just be what i'm looking for! I'll have to check it out later when I have the time.
Thanks for the suggestions everyone.
As I stated before I don't have a choice in whether I use Google or not. In order to access and turn in assignments I have to use Google services, with the exception of Duck Duck Go.
disroot looks good but they're vague on who exactly is running their servers and where they get their money from...
Protonmail is pretty good, but it's not free software.
Since that's changed, is it now objectively the best choice?
ziq wrote
Protonmail is what I use.