A while ago, when one of the Proton CEOs made some questionable statements, I terminated my Proton subscription. I liked Proton, having all the services I need in one place was nice and I wasn’t sure whether I’d actually leave and had a year already paid left.

I thought about at least leaving my mail there, but 4-5€ / month just for mail isn’t worth it in my opinion. And I’m very pissed that mail-forwarding and IMAP are premium features, something I probably should’ve found out way earlier. They want to lock me in, which is a dealbreaker for me.

So with that in mind, does someone know a fitting alternative? I’d of course still prefer a privacy-focused service and would be fine paying <= 2€.

€: Bonuspoints if there are no “special discounts” (discounts for commiting to a longer subscription are fine, what i mean is special deals for new customers or black friday deals, stuff like that)

€€: Going to give mailbox a shot, thanks everyone!

  • Egonallanon@feddit.ukEnglish
    80·
    13 days ago

    The trick to avoid vendor lock in on email providers is to use ones that let you use a custom domain. This way when you move providers all you have to do is update the DNS records for that domain andall mail will start getting delivered to the new provider pretty much straight away.

    • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
      5·
      13 days ago

      I do that, but still keep a proton mailbox for stuff like bittorrent trackers, a whois on my domains doesn’t give out my name, but well…

      Still, I recently moved (mostly) off of gmail, and I “only” had to update the aliases to the new address… all 80-something of them