Not that many people use email much anymore, but as you often need an email address to sign up for other shit… anyway, I need a better option than gmail, I’m sure you can appreciate why. Email is so old school at this point that most of the time I don’t even think about it anymore.

Anyway, I need some email options that aren’t gmail or otherwise attached to a billionaire. I’m not really interested in non-email methods of communication, I’m specifically asking about email.

Thanks in advance.

    • t_378@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I second this. Fastmail has been a joy to use. Since the users are paying, the company has (less) incentives to enshittify. JMAP? Count me in!

    • rumschlumpel@feddit.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’ve been there for several years as well. Works great, and I get pretty much no spam.

      At one point they offered “envelope with money sent via postal service” as an anonymous payment option, IDK if they still do that.

    • cRazi_man@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Been with MailBox.org for ages and it’s been absolutely fantastic. Proton had very limited offerings at the time, but even now I haven’t felt the need to move.

      I think the most basic email offering is €1/month.

    • Nilz@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Same here. Moved from Outlook to Mailbox a year ago and I’m happy with it, using mostly custom domains with catch all. I havo also recently enabled encryption which wasn’t hard to integrate into my mail clients at all. They dont have a free plan, but the cheapest plan is 1€/month (which doesn’t allow custom domains).

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    While we’re at it, anyone got a good site for temporary addresses that are basically used exactly once? And ideally don’t immediately get flagged as spam addresses.

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Who’s not using email? I’m green with envy, but I think it’s a ludicrous premise to think not many people are using email.

    • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      i don’t use email much at all, only signups at a few places.

      at work, communications with my coworker or clients is by phone or in person, not email or very rarely sms. email is mainly the required communications with the state (business registrations, taxes and shit) and invoices and receipts for things we use or buy online. plus lots of spam. lots and lots of spam. oh, and scams. lots of scammers and phishers too.

  • TypicalHog@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Protonmail. I have over 20 different online accounts/identities and they are all Protonmail based.

      • TypicalHog@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Absolutely. But one thing I didn’t like was it locked me from using Proton services (even free plan) once my premium plan ran out until I paid $6 cancelation fee BS.

    • Luffy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Proton is run by a fascist. Its only a matter of time until they too will Start sucking Trumps balls

      • TypicalHog@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 year ago

        LOL. Proton is absolutely not run by a fascist. You should learn what fascism is and what they do. Proton CEO is way WAY more tame than actual fascists. It’s actually not even close IMO.

        • sanzky@beehaw.orgEnglish
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          1 year ago

          he is at least a very dumb person if he believes Trump sides against bigtech

  • umami_wasabi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    While I’m using Proton rn, I’m planning to migrate to Posteo with Addy.io for aliases. However they all cost money. If you mean free email that’s not tie to a billionaire, I can’t think one off my head. You can achieve “free” by hosting your own email server as it sounds you’re intended for receiving only, but the electricity still cost some, plus you are doning free labor to make sure it is happy.

  • FediNeko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I use proton for a while now, its been great and well supported. The proton pass lets you use unique emails to register too. Its paid, for that anyway. I’ve been in love, I still don’t keep my passwords on it opposed to a USB drive, but some i’ve started to just out of simplicity and lack of need of serious security for those.

  • Thistledown@rblind.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I use Tuta mail. It is entirely open source. There are both paid and free tiers. I started on a paid tier, then downgraded to free. I like the option of a usable free tier when money is tight. I use addy.io for aliases.

    • paequ2@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      1 year ago

      How do you use email aliases or what do you find them useful for? I’ve played around with generating unique aliases for different websites I use, but I’m not sure I did anything useful with that setup. Normally, if I get spam I usually just hit the unsubscribe link and that’s been sufficient. Currently, I just have 2 emails: one I use for businesses and such and one for random websites that I don’t care too much about. Is having more aliases better?

      • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 year ago

        An alias can be used to see who is selling your address. If you give address B to only one organization and you get spam on B, then you know B sold your address.

        Not exactly the most useful information, but it’s there.

  • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
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    1 year ago

    if you wanna forget privacy and subscribe to a proprietary startup instead, use hey mail because it just sorts well. otherwise just use proton like everyone else said

  • paequ2@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m currently using Migadu. It’s $20/year for their cheapest plan. They give you a lot of control over the email service, so it might not be the best if you’re a noob. In fact, they require you bring a domain name. But, they let you create unlimited users, aliases, have fancy routing, etc.

    https://purelymail.com/ looks interesting too. And is cheaper at $10/year.

    If you do decide to get a custom domain, just some tips:

    • get something that ends in .net or even better .com because shitty companies with shitty IT departments will block other TLDs (I’ve had this happen with FedEx and my local garbage company). There is no spam folder for them, the email just explodes.
    • probably don’t pick a domain with one of your names it in for better anonymity, unless I guess you have a popular last name? john@smith.com looks cool, but consider if you want random sites like lemmy to have that data.
    • don’t pick a homophone or weird word because at some point you’ll have to speak your email to another human and it’s really awkward to tell your bank that your email is john@piggy.park or john@maill.com or was it john@male.com?

    Also, the web interfaces of some of these other email services might not be as good as Gmail’s UI. It helps to use an email client instead. Thunderbird is fine or you could use something simpler like claws-mail or even something like mutt.

  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Not that many people use email much anymore

    Where do you live, because I want to go there immediately.

    • lindicks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      1 year ago

      ProtonPass will also generate aliases and forward the mail to your email account. But, as someone else mentioned, the CEO’s politics seem sus.