Thinking of starting media creation, want to have an email address dedicated to that purpose. Don’t want to go with Gmail as I’d like to phase Google out of my life, amd Protonmail seems incorrect for this because it largely wouldn’t be encrypted mail.
Recommendations?
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The CEO of Proton recently came out as a right wing partisan who supports American neofascism. I would look elsewhere for email providers, Proton is not as trustworthy as they purport to be.
Yeah, gotta find a new VPN also. What an asshole (the CEO).
It was completely shocking, I would expect him to be smart enough not to make statements like that but I guess it’s masks off now that their guy is in power.
We’re probably on a list now, for besmirching him.
I’m not scared. I’m a besmirching machine. He’ll know he’s been besmirched when I lay down some righteous besmirch upon him!
I think you would be laying down smirch, whilst besmirch describes the laying down process.
One who had blemished the fair escutcheon of the family by a smirch of heresy.
T. A. Trollope, Marietta
smirch, n.
Nice. In that case I shall smirch him to the end, I shall smirch him on the seas and oceans, I shall smirch him with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, I shall smirch him on the beaches, I shall smirch him on the landing grounds, I shall smirch him in the fields and in the streets, I shall smirch him in the hills; I shall never unsmirch!
I totally smirched him in the parking lot.
cough Mullvad cough
Omigod.
That line of thinking doesn’t make any sense. I wonder what brand of clothes, electronics, vehicle, foods you’re buying. I’m sure I can find more than one neofascist, companies that fully support the Maga movement, etc… At least Proton is actually working for a better, more private internet, for more open source softwares, and is now operated as a non profit that is audited yearly by a third party. And as other people have said, Proton is not reduced to the political ideas of one board member.
Proton is not the sum total of one of its board members.
Bring your own domain.
You don’t want to be locked in to one mail provider for life. Just bring your domain when you leave.
I’ve had mine since 2010. First on Gmail, then proton and now purelymail. Gmail is evil. Proton is pricy, and more so if you have several domains. Purelymail is very affordable in comparison.
Buy a domain name and put that on the service provider of your choice.
But do not host your own email server unless you hate yourself.
If you can find a cloud email security gateway for a decent price it wouldn’t be that bad for an experienced email admin.
I have no basis by which to choose a service provider.
Fastmail has been great for me for years now
I use Proton, but I also use their VPN and password manager. Aliases are also nice.
Your domain provider might have a basic service for low cost.
You can get a low tier google workspace.
Zoho exists.
You can get an exchange p1 license.
You can buy your own Synology and run an email server off it if your ISP allows.
I use google workspace but it’s from when they had a free service. If I needed to switch today I’d go with Exchange online, or I’d find a cheap Colo near me and put a Synology pair in it.
How much does this cost you, and are there any drawbacks?
Maybe $20/year for the domain and some addl services.
Exchange online for a single user is $48/year according to their website.
Knowing I can move my domain whenever I want is worth something.
This. Always use your own domain.
I’m happy with Fastmail. Making masked emails is great to me, and you can bring your own domain with you. It also is integrated with 1password.
Fastmail and bring your own domain is the way.
Iirc my email on proton is encrypted. I believe I set it up that way. Good provider for me.
Namecrane is hella cheap for lifetime rnow 70$ 250gb storage 15 sites, or 10$ a year reocurring 100gb storage 15 sites (I have this one), fast and easy to setup.
they take a day or two to verify purchase of plan initially tho was pending forever
I run https://port87.com/
It’s not quite ready to bring in your own domain, but it works for an email on @port87.com, and you get basically unlimited email addresses. I’m trying to grow it by word of mouth for now, and when it’s ready for business class email (own domain, user management, etc) I’m going to advertise it.
Note that Proton is cool even if not encrypted. I have pretty much a single contact who uses it and all the other messages are thus unencrypted. Still feels good to not use Gmail.
Depending on how you feel about current leadership, you should probably be aware of comments made by Proton’s ceo
I know, but I’m tired of it. So he’s a rich dick. Everything I do gives money to some rich dick. Everything you do does so as well. And I’m tired of making my life harder just so a different rich dick gets my money.
