[EdLUG] Recommendation request: email service

azmodie azmodie at gmail.com
Wed Jul 17 16:42:23 UTC 2019


Have you thought about librem.one email and tools.

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On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 at 15:45, Dick Bain <dick.bain at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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