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I've been wanting to move on from gmail for a while now, thought about self hosting but I'm afraid I won't have the time or ability to keep it running well for a long period of time. Which service would you guys recommend? I'm not an avid email user, I basically just sign up to websites and send support emails once in a while.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Zozano 6 points 1 year ago

Proton just keeps getting better, it seems like they're trying to create a suite to compete with Microsoft.

Email, cloud storage, VPN, calendar and recently password manager.

I do wish their VPN client for Linux was a priority sooner (they're working on it now). Also, I can't get email notifications on my degoogled phone because it uses Firebase for push notifications.

Other than that, I love Proton. I pay for Proton Unlimited, I'm happy to support their growth for a great product range.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Could I ask how you find Proton's search capabilities versus Gmail?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I use their mail bridge to my PC, and then whatever client you want. I use Evolution.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I honestly don't use the search function. Our work emails are through gmail so that's what I primarily use, my personal email doesn't really have too much going on there so I don't really need to do any advanced searching, filters, etc