I’ve got a couple of e-mail addresses with the main providers, but I’m looking to switch to an ad-free and more secure provider.
I’ve been looking at ProtonMail, but what do you guys use or recommend?
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OVH has email hosting. I mostly use them for other services but I’ve had positive experiences with them.
I would like to have an email, please
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I’ve been using Posteo for a while now. They have the most sane privacy policy out there. They also support IMAP and POP3 ootb for external email clients, unlike some other email providers (e.g. Protonmail).
I also use Posteo, one thing to note though is that Posteo doesn’t (and probably won’t any time soon) support custom domains. If that doesn’t bother you, it’s a great choice.
The other alternative I found during my research, which doesn’t have that limitation, is mailbox.org.
I roll my own. Postfix, dovecot, spamassasin and dmarc friends. Easy to setup? No. But takes about an hour/year of my time to maintain once the ball is going.
do you happen to have done guide in place, or some docker compose I can look at?
mailcow is by far the easiest way to self host email: https://docs.mailcow.email/getstarted/install/#initialize-mailcow
Be aware that it’s significantly easier to host on smaller trusted hosting providers. Hosting this on cloud providers like DigitalOcean is almost impossible without getting blacklisted.
I’ve never heard of mailcow specifically, but I was intentionally avoiding all-in-one packages when setting up. Life has proven that good things aren’t easy and easy things aren’t good.
And so far I’m happy with that decision - setup is modular, was already able to extend it with postfwd, dual dkim signatures (rsa and ed25519), mta-sts and some other policy I can’t recall right now.
I’ve also specifically wanted to run as little code as possible that’s exposed to the internet - as such, I chose to not have webmail.
I also hosted my mail directly with Postfix and Dovecot back in the day before the all-in-one packages were a thing.
mailcow has reduced my yearly maintenance from a few hours to a few minutes. Addtionally it runs in Docker, meaning each service is fully isolated and it can be updated with a single command and without headache. Also includes a really handy web interface to configure each of the services, it even does 2FA if you are worried about security.
Have been running it since before it was using Docker and have 0 complaints, it always works and always improves.
Happy it works for you!
I’m running it on arch so that I never have to go through big upgrades. Been over 5 years now - so far, so good!
In regards to docker - it’s just a container. You can make any executable run a container. I quite like a lean system myself, though.
Haven’t used Mailcow in a while, but personally I found https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver better at the time. Great docs, many features.
The best option is https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver
I’ve tried them all, and this one I super-easy in comparison. Great documentation and just some ENV variables and you’re done. Happy to share my compose file with you if you want.
I use it with my Active Directory hosted with https://github.com/Fmstrat/samba-domain for users, but it has many different user options.
I don’t, but I could probably come up with one next weekend.
I have good experience with Soverin.net
I’ve been paying for Tuta for a couple years, and like it. I have my gmail forward to it just in case, but these days have basically completely switched, and barely ever get any legit emails forwarded from my gmail anymore.
Addling a vote for Fastmail. It’s great, priced right, privacy centric, has wicked 1Passwold integration (including disposable email addresses) and nerdy features for those who want them.
Personally I use Hey but that’s because imma snob.
After a Tuta vs Proton comparison, I went for the first because of their use of renewables, and I’ve been there for over a year now after fully ungoogling. Their search kind of sucks, but I feel they focus on creating a safe service with neat features, so I’m staying. I also combine it with SimpleLogin. Awesome service!
I’ve always heard fastmail as the go-to for personal domain email hosting. They’re the go-to for almost everyone I know who doesn’t just setup forwarding to Gmail.
I’m happy with Proton
Obligatory Eylenburg link https://eylenburg.github.io/cloud_comparison.htm
I’ve had nothing but positive experiences with Posteo. Their features list is very good for the pittance they charge per month.
im just overwhelmed by the endless flood of minor services that leach “a dollar here… a dollar there”. add them all up and they drain you dry.
skip some and you lose essential coverage. "just $2 more a month… i swear bro! "Posteo isn’t a monthly charge to your credit card. It uses a credits that you can top up whenever you feel like it. I usually put in a year’s worth of credits in adremoved which costs me around $17CAD.
I agree. I also use Posteo. Their privacy policy and website seem to be one of the most sane ones. They also allow you to use external email clients.
I’ve been impressed with Fastmail. I also use Tuta, which is pretty cool (but I barely use it).
I switched from Tuta to Fastmail. Tuta was mostly fine, but being restricted to only their client was really annoying. I can use Fastmail with Thunderbird/FairEmail/etc just fine.
I get what Tuta is trying to do with encrypted email, but IMO they’re better off joining up with Fastmail on better specs that allow for the things they want to do, instead of limiting what email clients you can use.
The inability to use my own client was the deciding factor of why I did not go with Tuta when I was email shopping. They’ve got good features and a fair price but that one decision is a serious turn-off imo.
I’ve been pretty happy with Tuta. I just have a free account, but it does seem like it has pretty good features and phenomenal security.
Fastmail. Proton is too limited and has terrible search
I’ve been with Fastmail for a year and it’s always been a very positive experience. Good support. If I had to pick a weak link, I think the spam filtering could be better.
I’ve not actually had any I don’t think, although one thing which is marked as spam… Isn’t. I don’t seem to be able to prevent that one email going there, it’s irregular though.
