What do Fedi people think about #Posteo email service? I'm pondering my choices in case of degoogling and finding a good email provider isn't easy.
Here's my criteria:
1) It's an email provider. Not everything-you-never-needed in one ugly unwieldy box and a stupid AI on the side.
2) I don't care about so called privacy and encryption, it's a marketing fad. These services are just huge targets for governmental blocking. So wherever you cool hackers are, I'm staying away. I want to be with common people. I don't want to be a collateral damage.
3) I don't care about Five Eyes, Nine Eyes, etc. Whatever I write on the Internet could be written on the wall, for everything else there is PGP.
4) I care about respectability and stability. So this service has to be in business for at least 10 years and not run by a group of enthusiasts.
5) POP3/IMAP support without restrictions.
So this leaves me with two options: #Fastmail and #Posteo
Fastmail is great, I used it in the past when it was twenty something dollars a year, but now it's too expensive. $5 a month and most features are overkill. 60Gb of space is ten times more than all my working documents combined.
Posteo is cheap and affordable, 2Gb is more than enough. But I don't really know if it's good and reliable.
Other sane alternatives are welcome, of course.
#Email
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What do Fedi people think about #Posteo email service?
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@chesheer Been using Posteo for three years. No issues.
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@chesheer check out migadu.com - straightforward clean email hosting, you pay for the storage and can use as many domains and users and alias as you want. very happy with it
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@chesheer@mastodon.bsd.cafe
I've used Posteo for a few years, very happy with them. Went with them because of the IMAP support. Never had connection issues. For extra features some may want they do mail aliases and Card/CalDAV for contacts and calendar/tasks etc. -
@chesheer I've been on mailbox dot org for many years now. It works great, is affordable, and has a nice webmail interface when needed. No AI, though there's file storage and contacts integrated. I find that handy myself, especially the former when resending bounced emails because of attachment size.
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For what it's worth, I have been using Posteo for a while, and I am very pleased with their service. 1€/month, reliable, never had a problem.
I am going to slowly migrate a lot of mailboxes and maybe a few calendars to their service.
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@chesheer I do wonder why Proton is not on your list? But some great suggestions here... Thanks for the question.
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@chesheer Perhaps consider https://purelymail.com/, that seems to generally follow your criteria and is 10 bucks per year or even smaller. I'm using it for almost two years without any issue.
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@craiglambie42 I already have Protonmail for some purposes. But I wouldn't consider it for my main email account because:
1) No IMAP/SMTP on free account.
2) Paid accounts are too expensive, I don't need most of their features.
3) Protonmail is target #1 for blocking by government. They shout too much about their privacy and encryption (and I don't actually believe them), so some governments hear them and act accordingly. -
@chesheer #Posteo is boring and working (boring is good). Its only downside IMHO is lack of support for BYOD (= bring your own domain).
Somebody mentioned #Purelymail – it's good and uses an, uhm, interesting stack.
#Fastmail is great, but even for me it has too many bells and whistles, so I don't use it myself (but certainly recommend).
It makes me happy they still have reply attribution (which I coded for them while still being a law student 20+ years ago):
Reply attribution
If you have quoted replies enabled, then the attribution line will appear above the quoted reply.It normally looks something like this:On...
Fastmail (www.fastmail.help)
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@km Wow, I envy you. I'm sure it feels great to see something you'd done still in use by many people!
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@chesheer As for #Purelymail – it relies on Apache James!
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@pedro AFAIK, Posteo doesn't support using your own domain.
As for hosting your own mail, I also tried it for some - too much hassle. But I've been using Racknerd for a VPS, and they didn't block my port 25. I remember that I even asked their support specifically about port 25. At least if nothing's changed since then (about two years ago). -
@chesheer been a very happy Posteo customer for years, absolutely stable and reliable. I'm on Migadu now, just because of the many aliases with wildcards feature i use extensively.
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@chesheer
Soverin.com is also a good option. I use them via my internet provider (freedom.nl) and could bring my own domain -
@chesheer I'm giving @mailbox_org a try. So good so far.
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