I want to stop using google services as much as possible, which is why I want to switch to a different email service. I don’t know which one I should switch too though. It would be great if someone could recommend a good alternative.

  • @TheAnonymouseJokerM
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    Use ProtonMail for generic, common stuff wherever your personal name and identity is attached. The reason is simple - it is the most commonly accepted email provider outside of GMail or Outlook.

    If you want a secure private email for discrete communications, pick a better alternative from this guide https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/email.html

    This is my personally applied strategy.

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    • Tanka
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      I can highly recommend Posteo. I have been using it for several years. It costs 12€ a year, but in my opinion that is a rather ridiculous amount to really think twice. In addition, you also get 2 alias email addresses. And if you don’t want to have a “xyz@posteo.de” address you can also choose to have e.g. a “@posteo.net” or “@posteo.com” email.

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      • @fourstepper
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        I think that they don’t own the posteo.com domain, just net

        That said, I use posteo also and like the service a lkt

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  • @spytfyre
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    At the end of the day it will depend on the amount of money that you are willing to spend on this (and 0 is a perfectly valid choice) but what I would suggest is that regardless of provider, you buy and use your own domain so that

    • you own your identity
    • can change providers in the future without sending a notice to all your contacts about the change
    • datendefekt
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      I would second this. We have a .me domain and the costs including hosting are just a few euros a month. Pretty effortless actually.

      One thing I did notice is that some people sometimes don’t receive my emails. I guess that over-restrictive spam filters filter out the .me domain.

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    • @FischOP
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      I didn’t even know you could use your own domain, will probably do that

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  • @tracyspcy
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    I used to have protonmail account, but huge amount of spam and phishing mails made me switch to tutanota.

    And tutanota is really great in spam filtering, literally got 0 spam mails for the year of use.

    • @iortega@lemmy.eus
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      I personally use and have a premium account on tutanota, but I still dislike to have to use their client to be able to use tutanota accounts. It is fine on mobile, I guess, but I would like to use my own client on PC.

  • @gmate8
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    Protonmail or Tutanota

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    • @gmate8
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      They said at Protonmail, they will remove Google dependencies in the future and develop they own notif thing. The app will be available on the main official F-Droid repo!

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  • @ClosedGL
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    I use ProtonMail, an open source and secure email service.

  • Tommi
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    I highly suggest you to go for ProtonMail. I have been using their services for more than two years and I cannot be happier

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