Fastmail and proton mail are usually recommended when this question comes up among technical groups.
I use Proton as well and it’s been great, but setting up their bridge for IMAP access in a way that worked for my setup was needlessly annoying (run on a headless server and access it from other devices within the network and docker containers on said server).
I’ve been thinking about setting it up on my server to access it with several devices too, since I’m using their default client for now. Do they have a Docker image that’s easy to set up? I wish I could access it from anywhere by exposing it on my domain name, but I’m pretty sure that’d not be the best security wise…
I would never expose it outside my network. The password used for authentication is too easy to brute force. If you really want to access it from anywhere, set it up for access within your network and then maybe use a VPN tunnel for devices outside the network. But anyway, setting up local access is problematic because it binds to localhost and gives you no option to change the binding address. There are several ways around this:
- Set it up behind a reverse proxy (I didn’t want to bother with this)
- Build the bridge from source after changing the binding address in the source code see https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge/pull/270 (seemed like the best option, but then I decided option 3 was better)
- Easiest option in my opinion: Set up local port forwarding with a redirection tool like rinetd, bind it to 0.0.0.0, only allow local IPs (you’d need port forwarding to access from outside anyway, but…), and redirect traffic from a particular port to the IMAP/SMTP server ports, for example:
0.0.0.0 1142 127.0.0.1 1143(bindaddress bindport connectaddress connectport); last step was to set it up as a systemd service.
I went with the third option and it seemed like so much hassle for such a simple requirement, honestly. If you decide you want to do this, feel free to ask for my configuration files.
I’ve had a fastmail account for many years and never had any issues. Fairly solid and reliable.
I’ve been with Fastmail for about a year and a half now. The number of complaints in their subreddit about outages had me a little worried but I’ve never once missed out on an important email or anything like that.
My literal only complaint is lack of offline viewing for messages but I just run K-9 and shit’s solid.
Didn’t even know they had messages, I haven’t used the web interface since I signed up pretty much!
I just set it up with my email client way back when and that’s it. Can’t say I’ve noticed any outages, but maybe that’s just me not paying enough attention
Edit: huh, seems there’s a lot I’ve missed out on… I’ll have to have a proper look in the morning
I had a look and my first email on that account was in 2008 lol
Protonmail and Tutanota are my favorites
I’ve been using mailbox.org for years and they’re great. I also like that they are following both German and EU rules/principles
Also using for many years with custom domain. They also support Caldav/Carddav which is great for using with software like Thunderbird.
+1 for mailbox.org. I’ve been with them for years
I’ve been using Gmail forever. I used to use Outlook but there is just so much spam that comes through.
I’ve also been using Gmail since it launched. I support the privacy movement and agree with concerns around their usage of users’ data, but I’m just too far dug into the Google ecosystem and too dependent on that particular email address for all my sign-in stuff where I don’t want to spend the time migrating somewhere else.
The one that comes free with my domain registrar.
I also like Riseup but it needs an invite. I also like mail alias services like SimpleLogin and AnonAddy. People should use those more often.
I don’t like how Gmail’s tagging system works (All Mail and no “archive”). As for Proton and Tuta, I don’t like how I can’t use other mail clients other than their own web interface. If you only access mail via a web browser, then it’s fine I guess.
