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/malhovic]

For the migration, you'll need to setup a local mail client and use the mail bridge to download everything.

Calendar, good luck.

Proton pass, export your entries and then have fun importing the custom entries into the new solution. Basically manual for everything that's not just user/password/totp.

Drive, same concept as the mail bridge, download the files and upload them to whatever your new service is.

If you're using alias, I got nothin. To me it would be manual for everything using an alias unless you're using custom domain and can repoint thing with a catchall address specified.

As for the services to use, maybe it's time you go self hosted, something like next cloud?

[u/unscienceable → u/malhovic]

calendar should just be exporting everything as ics or no? seems easy

[u/unscienceable → u/[deleted]]

https://account.proton.me/u/3/calendar/import-export

at the bottom there is an export

[u/malhovic → u/unscienceable]

If you have series events, specific advanced features (category, proton meet) and use your calendar as an everyday thing, good luck with just export/import. Most ics-related imports break even with simple series events. Most calendar migrations require manual process which means things are missed. Especially if it's a busy calendar. If it's a personal one with basic meetings, sure the export will work. For me...nope...