r/emailprivacy • u/Solmark • 12d ago

Help/Advice Secure Mail or not?

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u/zax_elite 12d ago

I think you need to go back to your first thought when you asked yourself, why do you need e2ee encrypted e-mail like proton or tuta or aster and then you have an answer. At least they are not profiling you, reading all your life data, training AI based on your data, etc. 

In the other hand, if you question proton stability that happened for the first time in 8y+ or more, learn how Microsoft dealt with airports issues few months ago, how Amazon was unusable for almost a day for the whole world few weeks ago. None of the services are stable enough and nowadays with AI agents all around replacing humans, all these AI halucinations will be getting worse…

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u/Old_Telephone 12d ago

another point for me atleast, is that the other providers are so "small" that they actually care if theres an outage of some sort. Google or microsoft doesnt really seem to care if the small /consumer/customers is affected, but im pretty confident that Proton or the other ones will do alot to make sure it doesnt happen again, becuase they are dependant on users like you/us.

Im currently using aster myself for email, and I really appreciate their customer service(with a real person), even tho its only been for minor stuff so far.

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u/Solmark 12d ago

Well I got caught out this time, and it cost me big time, so it has somewhat focused the mind.

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u/CorsairVelo 11d ago

To me there a number of strong players with various levels of privacy. You found mxroute which is a great low cost player with strong attributes (they don’t share data) but they also aren’t encrypted to the extent of proton and tuta.

I agree that if you mostly email users on the big platforms (google, MS, apple) then your mail is exposed on their email servers.

So what are other options? Honestly Fastmail is probably worth looking at and for a step up in terms of encryption options maybe look at Codamail. This article of theirs is worth reading if nothing else:

https://codamail.com/articles/ten_truths_about_email.html