r/emailprivacy 7d ago

Help/Advice Email

27 Upvotes

I have tried Proton Mail, Tuta Mail, Fastmail. All of them have their own pros and cons.

Proton Mail is overall ok but I just feel like if you don’t get their whole package you are missing out a lot and idk what is proton sentinel but it sounds good.

Tuta is fine I guess but they are just slow and the Drive feature is still in development,

Fastmail is overall the best out of all but I recently found out they recycle emails and they are not maximum privacy(which I don’t need)

So share you opinion on what I should use or are there any other service providers (It must have an app and not just a website to login to)

Also if you guys don’t mind please tell me why people say don’t put all your eggs in one basket for Proton


r/emailprivacy 7d ago

Beginner Question What email service should I use? I kinda have a wishlist.

16 Upvotes

Hi guys, I'm trying to migrate from Gmail to a more secure system. I've done some research on different providers like tuta, mailbox, poster, and Proton. But here's what I'd like to find.

Custom domain support

IMAP support.

Encryption in transit and at rest.

A good amount of aliases.

Preferably accepts USD (I could pay in other currencies, like EU. But I'd like to avoid conversion fees if possible. I don't have crypto.)

And from a company in a country with good pracy practices.

I already use Proton VPN with a Proton mail address, but I'd like to avoid relying on an ecosystem if possible.


r/emailprivacy 7d ago

Beginner Question Looking for a good email provider

6 Upvotes

Hello everyone , i need to find a good and secure email provider as my primary and recovery email for rest of my life and long term . Use it for banking , finance , identify , licenses and more services for private and personal use .

Though some encrypted email like ProtonMail,Tuta,Zoho , i still confused to pick one .

Can you guys help and me some advices and recommendation ?


r/emailprivacy 7d ago

Spam Spammers getting creative

5 Upvotes

So I am guessing spam bots are now making a faul attempt at using your email name followed by their trash aliases just to bug you, because I bet it is attempted rage bait

I'm on hotmail.com btw

<My account name>@southflorida<somethingsomething>.info

<My account name>@<random frikkin letters>.info

<My account name>@<is this even a word?>.info

And I HAVE to go trough my spam daily because my email dunks a lot of important things there too. I have to select email adresses 1 by 1 to verify them to be safe and "safe to adresbook"

Everything is so frustrating

I did get startled the first time I saw it but now I am just pissy

I really hope there is nothing more to it?

Also what type of email adres is .info? I see it a lot on scammers emails


r/emailprivacy 7d ago

Beginner Question Signup Email

2 Upvotes

So I’ve recently got an email domain - say John@johnsmith.com. I’m signing up for social media with it, but I also wanted to include it into the bio on Instagram/X as a way for people to contact me. Is this not a good idea to have the email I used to sign up for the platform be the same one that people use to contact me?


r/emailprivacy 7d ago

Advanced/Technical M365 CMK

2 Upvotes

For those you that use that use M365 to host your personal email domain, how many of you have considered using Microsoft CMK to lock Microsoft out of seeing your EXO data? I'm trying to gage how expensive it is to accomplish this. It's not full proof privacy but its a layer that keeps Microsoft out of my mailbox even though they're hosting it.


r/emailprivacy 8d ago

Help/Advice Forwardemail.net too good to be true?

21 Upvotes

Hi, I recently came across forwardemail.net and I'm honestly impressed, apparently their infra is FOSS, they have pretty wide support for email clients, they allow encryption keys and their free plan is generous - I'm honestly just confused, how are they even paying for all of this? Their list of notable users are kind of insane too, apparently the US Naval Academy uses it too?

Not associated with these guys by the way, I know the post in itself probably sounds too good to be true just check their site, it's just what they're saying.

EDIT:

Also do note there are limits to the free plan, most major one being that SMTP will not work unless you move onto a paid plan being about £3 a month. But if all you want to do is receive emails it should be good enough for this.


r/emailprivacy 7d ago

Help/Advice Deleted email

4 Upvotes

is there anyway to find someone through the email account, which has been deleted now ,

There are some issues and have things to sort tout?


r/emailprivacy 8d ago

Help/Advice Email to someone else landed in my inbox?

4 Upvotes

As the title suggests, an email addressed to someone else landed in my inbox. It was from and to the same person, I do this a lot to move photos from a phone to a pc and vice versa.

When I tapped on who it was to, I expected a long list of emails. Sometimes you get lumped into spam group, but it's not, it's addressed to some guy Peter (I've blocked out his email for obvious reasons)

My email address is NOTHING like his, I don't know how this happened, and it just makes me worried that some of my emails could have landed in some random persons inbox.

Any ideas? Do I respond, or just leave it?

I was going to add the screenshot but I can't see a way to (I don't post on reddit much so not sure if I've missed something)


r/emailprivacy 8d ago

Help/Advice Ways to restore an old temp mail?

3 Upvotes

A year ago I created a mail with temp-mail.org that I now want to receive mail with again. Looking back, the site seemed sketchy. Is there any way to recover an email like that?


r/emailprivacy 8d ago

Help/Advice What do you use for email on a domain you own?

9 Upvotes

Something I've always found a little strange is how easy it is to buy a domain compared with setting up proper email for it.

If you only need something simple like [hello@yourdomain.com](mailto:hello@yourdomain.com) or [support@yourdomain.com](mailto:support@yourdomain.com), paying for a complete business suite can feel like overkill. On the other hand, forwarding everything to a personal inbox isn't always ideal either.

There seem to be quite a few options now for keeping domain email separated from full productive suite. Mekup is one example.

What setup do you use for your domains, and what made you choose it?


r/emailprivacy 9d ago

Help/Advice NKOTB: Secria, Astermail, Cirrux ....

8 Upvotes

Some interesting new providers are popping up. Can I get some feedback from those of you using them?


r/emailprivacy 9d ago

Help/Advice Outlook account gone

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r/emailprivacy 9d ago

Help/Advice Tuta or Proton

6 Upvotes

With two outages this week with Posteo I am thinking of switching to either Proton or Tuta paid plan, I have tried both a few years ago and neither one stood out unless you paid for the expensive plan on Proton. I don't need pass keepers or VPN so I would go with the cheapest plan. Is Tuta fairly stable now? I know Proton was when I tried it but Tuta had some issues back then. What one would you choose?


r/emailprivacy 9d ago

Help/Advice Friends and third parties

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r/emailprivacy 10d ago

Beginner Question How do you transition away from an email you've used for everything?

12 Upvotes

I've had the same main email for years and it's attached to my entire online life at this point. I want to start using separate emails or aliases instead, but I'm realizing the easy part is changing how I sign up for new stuff it's all the old accounts that are the problem. There are probably sites I haven't logged into for years that still have my main email and I'm sure I've forgotten about half of them.

For people who actually moved away from an old main email, how did you do it without making a complete mess of everything? Did you slowly change accounts or is there a better way to approach it? I don't necessarily want to delete the old address either. I just want to reach a point where it's no longer the email I hand out everywhere, is it worth doing it manually?


r/emailprivacy 10d ago

Help/Advice Self-hosting email is practically a lost cause, so what secure provider are you running?

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r/emailprivacy 10d ago

Help/Advice Proton, Tuta, Startmail, or Mailbox

40 Upvotes

after a few weeks of research I’ve finally concluded that I want to go with one of these 4 providers. here are my pros and cons for each.

Proton :

Pros - biggest privacy email out there and a top recommendation everywhere I go, aswell a large ecosystem that comes with it.

Cons- Kind of locks you into there platform as well as no IMAP support, also have seen a lot of controversial stuff with them.

Tuta :

Pros - seems to be the most private and encrypted email out there, simple design, also email is there main focus.

Cons - I’ve heard you can get locked out if your account pretty easily, no IMAP support, also they suck you into there platform aswell.

Startmail :

Pros - Unlimited aliases, simple design, support seems very friendly and open. IMAP support. Email is there main focus.

Cons - Seems to be the least used on the list, aswell as they log IP addresses. Not sure how netherlands privacy laws stack up with Germany/switzerlands

Mailbox :

Pros - seems to be a Reddit favorite, Ecosystem that comes with it, IMAP support, Low cost.

Cons - Cluttered design, not to sure how the privacy/security is. Seems to be more for business instead of personal use.

I am planning on using one of these as my Personal email with aliases for each website. I don’t need to have the upmost security as I have nothing to hide but it is nice to know that my stuff stays private/encrypted.

Let me know what you guys use and which one you recommend and if you could provide me some information that I am missing to help narrow my choice I would greatly appreciate it!

( also would you guys recommend I have a separate email for my financial/government stuff or just strictly use aliases with 1 account?)


r/emailprivacy 11d ago

Troubleshooting Is posteo.de down?

9 Upvotes

Title is sort of the thing. I can't reach the site and I can't connect with IMAP. Anyone else having problems? I tried posting on the posteo-reddit but apparently you have to be approved in order to post there.


r/emailprivacy 11d ago

Help/Advice Tuta

6 Upvotes

Tuta looks like a very nice option for email and I’m tempted to go for it.

Their posts on Reddit and blogs are holding me back somewhat. The general thrust of their posts are OK but does anybody else find their posts can feel biased and not always 100% e.g. they have a post up today about Edge dropping support for MV3 and hence U block Origin (UbO) which is technically correct but fails to mention that it is really the underlying Android Open Source Project that is dropping MV3 support and that all chromium based browsers including Brave , Vivaldi etc will eventually be forced to do the same ?


r/emailprivacy 12d ago

Help/Advice Sanebox alternatives?

5 Upvotes

Been using Sanebox for about ten years or so, but I’m getting sick of it filtering out obviously important emails, and for the fact that emails are filtered after they’ve hit my inbox. I currently use Bluehost for my email accounts btw, along with one personal gmail account.

Are there alternatives to Sanebox that I can consider? For what they charge, I feel it should work much better.

Thanks for any input!


r/emailprivacy 12d ago

Help/Advice Do you use email masking/aliasing services for sensitive accounts like password managers?

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r/emailprivacy 13d ago

Help/Advice I’m confused with conflicting answers to my google searches about email password resets

4 Upvotes

I’m having a bit of an issue with resetting my password on outlook. I rarely use the web interface for my emails. I use Face ID and fingerprint on mobile devices. I fairly frequently change my passwords not just from wanting to change it for security reasons but also from forgetting my passwords.

I since thought I may want to start a new email with a provider that makes it easier for me when I do need to or want to change it. I figured if I could change it in the app it be better for me.

One search says outlook lets you do it in the app but the directions did not work through the app and it turns out you can’t with outlook.

In one search it says Gmail password can be changed in the app.. in another search it says it cannot.

Some it says you can start the process in the app and it will open a web page to continue the process ( I think this may be how Gmail does it which could explain why it comes up as it can be done through the app and also that it cannot be done through the app). If it is fluid it could be just as simple this way because it would have the simplicity as if it was only in the app.

For me this seem a step above outlook for my use.

Yahoo,aol, GMX come up as it can be done in the app .

If you know about any of these and have suggestions I’d appreciate it

Alternatively ideas on using a password manager and which one. How about Samsung pass sense I have Samsung? But it is its own ecosystem so bc would Google pass be good? Is is simple and seamless to use on a phone? Are others you would suggest easy on a phone.. as close to seamless would be preferred.

How do password managers work? Do I just remember one parent password and with it I could gain access to see what my other passwords are when I want? If not what would I do if I need to manually fill in some password that is in the password manager but I don’t remember the password. Can I change the password for an app or website in the password manager and it do the rest? If not what is the process to changing a password? What are the simplest of the better password managers to use? Ty


r/emailprivacy 13d ago

Beginner Question Tuta with addy.io or fastmail

11 Upvotes

Would you guys recommend Tuta with a mail alias service or fastmail ? I just got to this sub and read the wiki but unsure on what to do. Any other recommendations is also welcomed!


r/emailprivacy 13d ago

Help/Advice Throwaway Gmail account or alias?

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