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Here's a genuine question: is Proton Mail the least shitty of companies that provide email services?
I self-host email and will continue until I die. But for others who need a company to do this for them, is Proton Mail the least shitty of options? Does this change the evaluation? I'm genuinely curious about the opinion of others here.
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jegp • today at 3:25 AM
What's your stack? After reading this, self hosting suddenly appeals to me.
dbpcut • today at 2:36 AM
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To answer your question, from my limited experience: no.
There are better or less shitty companies like Fastmail, Runbox (tried them), even Purelymail (but 1 or 2 people setup), Mailbox (shitty support, solid setup; I am a customer), Migadu (good name, I have never used them), there's Tuta (but somehow they seem off to me; like Proton they also do not allow IMAP/POP - Proton allows with some circus), MXRoute has good name at places like LET forum. There's even Zoho if you just a mail service (but then if you use Zoho then only reason to not use Google or MSFT will be cost or just the middle finger :D) … and many more.
So there are options.
PS. as per self hosting email - I can't self host my seedbox properly on a VPS, I don't think I should even try email :)