[EdLUG] Recommendation request: email service

[Walter McDonald]

Zoho comes to mind as a possible

On 17/07/2019 13:35, Tai Kedzierski wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Wondering if anybody has tried (and somewhat tested?) any email 
> providers as alternative to Gmail?
>
> The main reason I'm still on Gmail is because of their excellent spam 
> filtering, functionality of which is of importance to me. The other 
> features like labelling/tagging and search are of less importance.
>
> I've noticed a more frequent appearance of tutanota.... any reason for 
> this one's popularity?
>
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>
> I did do a little reading up and found this article which seems to 
> give quite a good rundown
>
> https://restoreprivacy.com/secure-email/
>
> The one I come away with thinking I'd try is runbox.com 
> <http://runbox.com> since I'd in theory be able to use its IMAP/SMTP 
> functions for personal notifications once again (Google has crippled 
> this, of course.)
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> Then of course there's the argument that Google has most peoples' 
> email anyway, since many recipients are using Gmail, but that turns 
> into a circular argument. I'd also like to actually walk the walk 
> better, being a proponent of not supporting privacy-invasive revenue 
> models...
>
> ===
> Tai Kedzierski
> Linux Operations and Deployments Engineer
>
>
> I use LibreOffice <https://www.libreoffice.org/> , a free, 
> Freedom-respecting replacement for MS Office
>
> /Open Source Free Software is a matter of liberty, not price./
> https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software
>
>
> <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> 
> 	Virus-free. www.avg.com 
> <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> 
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