[EdLUG] Recommendation request: email service

[Dick Bain]

There is ProtonMail.com which I use for my personal email account,
encryption and a decent webmail interface
Dick

On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 at 14:31, Thomas Kluyver <thomas at kluyver.me.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019, at 1:36 PM, Tai Kedzierski wrote:
>
> 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 use Fastmail (https://www.fastmail.com/ - $5/month), although I haven't
> managed to fully move away from Gmail either.
>
> Privacy isn't the central focus in the same way as it is for many of the
> providers on that list - e.g. they can process your unencrypted mail for
> things like training the shared spam filter. But there's no advertising,
> and I largely trust them to take privacy and security seriously.
>
> The spam filter works pretty well, in my experience: a few more slip
> through than on Gmail, but I think I've seen more false positives in my
> spam folder on Gmail. There's a pretty nice webmail interface, support for
> all the relevant standard protocols, and they've been driving the
> development of JMAP, a new JSON-based protocol designed to replace IMAP.
>
> Thomas
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