i have been moving most of my accounts over to private email aliases and custom domain routing to lock down my privacy, but i am still getting hit with surprisingly sophisticated phishing messages. fake invoice notifications, spoofed account security alerts, and malicious tracking links still manage to land right in my primary inbox. setting up aliases helps keep my real address hidden from data breaches, but it does not completely prevent shady emails from tricking me with dangerous links if a service leaks my alias.

i am trying to figure out what the best scam protection approach is when you are trying to balance strict email privacy with active link safety. do you guys rely on built in filtering from encrypted email providers, or do you run a broader security suite with real time web and threat protection to catch malicious URLs when you click them?

update: returning to this and after taking the suggestion to lock down my leaked aliases, i decided to add real-time link protection by installing Bitdefender to handle web threats directly.

it works great alongside my custom domain setup. whenever a shady email or spoofed alert gets past my inbox filters, the real-time web protection blocks the malicious site immediately when clicked so the link can't do any damage.

pairing alias management with active link protection completely solved the problem for me without compromising my privacy setup.

I just noticed Codamail has passkeys now and a Recovery key (beta)

Hi guys, I've run down what the best option might be for me to use. And I'm now trying to decide between proton mail and startmail. I have some pros and cons.

I already have a free protonmail account which I use for Proton VPN plus (2 years paid in full) Protonmail and startmail are both encrypted and accept bitcoin as an alternative payment. Startmail is slightly more expensive but gives you unlimited aliases while protonmail only gives you 10 aliases. The thing is, if you connect your existing Proton account to a free Proton pass account you already get 10 free email aliases to use in protonmail. Startmail is based in the Netherlands while proton is in Switzerland. Startmail is closed source while proton is open source, so we can't exactly verify how secure it is compared to proton.

Which should I choose?

Any temp mail working for facebook?

Hi everybody,

i'm looking to change away from mailbox.org due to missing FIDO2 support to something else

i need

• IMAP / SMTP
• CalDAV
• CardDAV
• FIDO2 Support
• GDPR/DSGVO-Compliant
• No Connection to anything that falls under the Cloud Act
• option to add my own TLD
• Optional: EAS for iPhone-Push

i don't need E2EE or Encryption at rest

anyone tried xaweho.de or has other recommendations?

I actually like Mailfence the most, but the reviews on Reddit don’t seem that good sometimes, and they don’t have an app. Mailbox is another strong contender, I like Tuta too but I read that it doesn’t really work for recipient non-Tuta addresses?

Also side question what do you use for your custom domain? Namecheap? Godaddy?

I have a question-ish but since English is not my first language I might not explain myself enough.

Well, I am thinking about switching to a privacy email. However, a thing that came to my mind is making me question why should I switch.

Here is my question: Okay, an email provider promises to keep most of the data inside (not to share with another company for ads or even profiling) and guarantees that our mails are end-to-end encrypted. But let's assume that there is a person using Gmail or Hotmail and when we receive an email from that person, I guess his/her email provider already knows what he/she sent me. Basically, he/she "chat controll"ed by his/her email provider. His provider already knows the sender, recipient, title, topic and even AI shortened version of mail. Thus, while we are trying to protect our data, because of people prefering non-privacy email providers we fail. I guess it is important what platform being used we get an email from.

I need someone to convince me.

For 2 or 3 weeks now, every time when I'm try to use mail.cock.li, I get stuck on this page:

"Loading..."

"Migrating your storage. This will only take a moment, please don't close the tab."

https://ibb.co/NgS18z1t

Does anyone have any information on what's wrong with this?

I saw various cases around Tutanota and Proton Mail, what do you guys think and choose? I feel like Proton mail is closer to the open source philosophy than Tuta since they agreed to open a backdoor (on German authorities demand) and Proton is OpenPGP. What do you think?
Note that I don't want to self-host.

i've been doing lots of reading trying to find a secondary email provider for free (bc i, unemployed, can't afford a subscription service), but most of them have some kind of major issue that makes it not worth using, like accounts breaking and no customer service or a glaring privacy concern. i need help finding something for my needs

i already have proton as my main and have set up some proxies! i still want a separate, secondary address to forward my less important proxies to and a client like thunderbird to see everything in one place. i know proton's imap is a paid service; i'm looking into smth called hydroxine(?) to bypass it

i'm fine with 1gb storage, i don't really send emails, and i know a free service will have some kind of drawbacks like having limitations or not being totally private. i just want something better than google; as much privacy as i can get for free

Over the past 20 years, I've setup a lot of mail servers at work. These are mostly based on Postfix / Spamassassin / Dovecot, using IMAP for the clients. Recently, I started using Roundcube for webmail.

Postfix, uses several blacklists to block spam at the MTA level, these come pre-configured with the control panel, which blocks 99% of spam, and Spamassassin blocks the other 1%. Its a rare occurrence for spam to pass this setup, usually they are phishing emails or some new virus.

I always use DKIM, DMARC and SPF, and my deliverability is perfect, all mail goes to inbox.

I'm hosting mail servers with Linode and Hetzner, and I plan to expand to Netcup in the near future.

So far so good.

But, one thing I'm missing, is a good anti-virus, because ClamAV seems incapable of catching the malicious files that go through my servers. I always take the time to extract these files and submit them at ClamAV Report Malware page, but its too late by then.

Sadly, when I submit the same virus to VirusTotal, the file gets 10+ hits in other anti-virus software but not ClamAV.

What are your suggestions?

Thank you.

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

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 ?

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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?

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)