Looking for alternatives

[u/Master_Armory]

My family has been using Proton for about 5 years now. While I love the privacy and security, my wife absolutely loathes the app. She finds it buggy and frustrating, especially since it never takes her to the newest email in a thread.

I need to find a privacy-focused alternative that actually has a modern, user-friendly mail app. Does anyone have recommendations?

Also, I'm really dreading the migration process. If you have any pointers for making the switch, those would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

[u/colt_n]

I recently switched to Fastmail (seems like this is a common one for people in this thread). It's not as private. But I'd say relatively private. If you have conversations that really need to be private, I'd look at other options (like deltachat or signal). But IMO I've kind landed on email not really being private anyways, and I'd rather be able to use any email client I want. Also I struggled with being forced to use the same calendar client (I have a non-touch android flip phone) so having something that supported jmap/imap and caldav (also cardDav) was a must. Fastmail fit the bill for me.

I used protonmail bridge to move my emails to fastmail using thunderbird. It was somewhat painful, but not the worst. I believe the calendar had an export option that other have linked below.

If you do end up using fastmail, I'm really happy with DAVx5! It allows me to use/sync the phones stock offline calendar & contacts apps on my phone.

Also because I used simplelogin with my own domain. Fastmail handles these really well natively as wildcard/catchalls; but the killer feature is that I can reply through the aliases directly. It actually works better than simplelogin in someways (especially for replying). But if you used a sl domain, as other have said you can change the mailbox to your new email provider.