A while back I started on this journey, and as most people did, I’ve had my ups and downs and went through the learning curve, I’ve now reached the point of so much knowledge that I truly know, I dont know shit. People of Lemmy I come to you today because idk what to do, I recently made a free account with proton, their subscription is fairly cheap so idm paying the monthly tier of 15GB so I can have control over ending it whenever I please instead of being locked in for a year. Now, I heard about Tuta but never dived much into it, i know Proton has had its controversies (Don’t be shy of reminding me of what they were), but what are my options here truly for a proper FOSS email provider? I can negate the free part for a reasonable price, but truly private AND secure is a must.
Self Hosting isn’t an option yet for personal reasons unless it’s completely free.
No it hasn’t, but with the Proton Mail Bridge you can get close, as it creates a local IMAP server that you can use with any email client - it’s far from ideal though and it has plenty of glitches
Thanks for the response, yeah that is better than nothing, but if OP hasn’t migrated yet then better to choose a provider that isn’t locking them into an apple-esque walled garden. If they decide to stop supporting the bridge then you’re stuck.
I like proton but they make a few too many weird decisions. I mean imap has been around for a long time, why not use the open standard.