E-mail providers and tools (for ad surveillance rebels and refugees)

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Chatter about using email in a liberated way. E-mail was working well enough before Microsoft and Google turned it into a shit-show of surveillance, restrictions, and dysfunction.

This community is /not/ about supporting gmail or outlook users getting connected to those oppressive forces. But everyone in the relatively liberated world are welcome here, even if to deal with connecting to other people who are trapped inside those walled gardens.

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onionmail.org — I thought it was a great option, but acct was spontaneously deleted (lemmy.sdf.org)

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The onionmail.org service is one of a kind. Although there are a few liberated email services that offer onion accounts or onion access to clearnet addressed inboxes, onionmail.org is the only one that will give you an onion email address which has no clearnet alias.

This is very useful because it’s an email address that you can distribute as an email address, but Microsoft and Google users have no hope of sending you messages. It’s an escape from ad surveillance but while still giving the other person a feasible means to reach you through a better email provider.

The problem is that they falsely advertise the account limitations. You distribute your onion email address to people, then a few months later they cut you off.

Question: is onionmail.org really one of a kind? Is there anything else gives you an onion email address with no clearnet alias?

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

Is self-hosting your own onion box an option?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I doubt it. Well, I have a laptop with dead LCD backlight which could perhaps be an always-on headless server with an SSD. But the uplink would have to be a GSM modem on a prepaid plan. I guess it’s feasible if the constantly running tor machinery is lean enough on the network. Not sure I can take on another project.