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Any good email service except tutamail and proton ? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am now using disroot . I don't care about anonymity or anything as I just wanna use it to connect to my bank, ID and buy/book shit etc. Which all have my phone number, address, name etc anyway so no point in that . I just want the security privacy to be good enough that no one can easily hack it, steal my OTP, inbox etc and I want it to be big and trusted enough that they won't sell it/sell it and go Scott free also gmail asks email or phone number for verification and then brick acc if I don't comply so I'd like to skip those kind of ones . Is disroot enough for my uses ? Also I'd like a free one as I barely use emails like 3 or 4 times a year .

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Uh I'm not that tech savy but thanks for the suggestion .

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I understand.
You could look into getting a domain either way, it really is pretty simple — you go to a registrar website (I like porkbun.com), choose your domain name and purchase it. To get the email stuff going, it's just a bit of copy pasting between their guide and the domain's control panel.

Like I said, this domain stuff is useful outside of Migadu and similar services, but for a more 0-config option, I think disroot is alright. You also have a mailbox.org and StartMail (from StartPage).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It's also cheap. Not free but their lowest plan is something like $12/year.

They also let you make unlimited aliases and even wildcard aliases which are great for making up addresses on the fly so you never use the same address with two websites, and fighting spam.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

$19 USD/year for micro now, $90USD/year for mini

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Ah cool. It's starts being very competitive very fast if you need more than one mailbox and/or more than one domain. Regular services will ask for something like $5/mo (per domain and per mailbox!) which adds up very quickly.

Wish more services used the "all you can eat" model. Charging for emails sent/received and for storage space is all that's needed. Charging for "mailboxes" or "domains" or "aliases" has always been a scam.