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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] 19 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

If you have your own domain, I recommend Migadu. They take care of all the boring parts of hosting email, while being cheap and very reliable. All you have to do is[1] follow their guude to setup some DNS records and double check everything is right. After that, you have a working email account with unlimited addresses, inboxes and a bunch more nice features.

[1]: Besides getting a domain name, which you should get anyway, since it gives you more control over your digital identity and makes it much easier to migrate providers in the future.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 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 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks 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.

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