Anything better?

    • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      13 days ago

      If you do this it’s good to use something like mxroute as an SMTP server so deliverability is their problem.

      Can I ask what client you prefer?

      I dislike thunderbird and roundcube.

      • nebulaone@lemmy.world
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        13 days ago

        I recommended looking up the problems with self hosting a mail server first. Just go with Tuta imo, its cheaper and easier.

      • irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        13 days ago

        But the shithead exec is supportive of fascists which means privacy is secondary to the desires of the current regime. That’s just a standard part of fascism. And if the current regime is allowing untested backdoor code to be inserted in the Treasury department and NASA and the CDC and most major social media to strip out protections for people they don’t like, climate change, etc. Just imagine what someone who actually supports them ideologically would be willing to do.

          • irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            13 days ago

            I distance myself from companies run by people who say or explicitly support people who say that I don’t or shouldn’t exist. There are a few other things that make me distance myself from companies, but that one is a pretty hard line. (I’m gender “non-compliant” and on the Autism spectrum among other things that have been explicitly said don’t exist, shouldn’t exist, or need to be “cured”). Otherwise, I try to distance myself from any companies who explicitly collect and sell my information and other things that I find problematic, but that’s not always possible.

            • haverholm@kbin.earth
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              12 days ago

              Keep fighting the good fight!

              (I’m trying to be encouraging, but obviously finding a baseline decent mail or other tech provider shouldn’t have to be a “fight” …)

          • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
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            13 days ago

            People on all social media really can’t seem to understand that the choices aren’t exclusively “everything has a perfect open source, non-profit utopia” and “fuck it, everyone is corrupt so it doesn’t matter what service you use.”

            You are able to do what you can, where you can, to mitigate risks and try your best not to support fascists. Especially when there are a dozen alternatives.

            Then again, maybe people are just arguing in bad faith.

    • jesse@sh.itjust.works
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      13 days ago

      I was looking at moving to Proton as this all went down. Those plans are on hold.

      After reading through it, I am having trouble figuring out how to read his comments because I wonder if there is some different cultural references or simplification going on between the Swis exec and American readers.

      It was absolutely a stupid comment and was then the response was handed badly, but I don’t know that I read it as aligning with Fascism.

      This is the best writeup I can find: https://archive.ph/2025.01.29-213655/https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-trump-a-deeper-analysis-and-surprising-findings-aed4fee4305e

      • hbm@feddit.dkEnglish
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        12 days ago

        Thanks for the link. I was about to extend my Proton mail subscription to the full monty, but backed out when I saw the original incriminating post (which did surprise me, based on what I thought I knew about them). The writeup does offer a compelling argument for that one post having been taken a little too far in todays tribal political environment.

        • jesse@sh.itjust.works
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          12 days ago

          Yeah. I am not ready to move to Proton quite yet, but this doesn’t feel like it was intended the way many Americans are reading it. They also have posts like this (not from the an executive I think, but official) that don’t sound like getting in bed with the government: https://proton.me/blog/trump-controls-nsa-fbi

          All that is to say, I am planning to give this a little longer and see what else happens, but I have not ruled out Proton yet.

    • over_clox@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      Wait, you can search keywords on Lemmy?

      I dunno, I mostly use Jerboa on Android, as far as I know Jerboa can only search for communities, unless I missed something or perhaps need to update Jerboa.

      • LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works
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        13 days ago

        Jerboa doesn’t have all the features, including searching for keywords. You can choose other app richer in features from here, or use web UI.

  • hanabatake@lemmy.ml
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    12 days ago

    This dude compare quite a lot of email providers in term of privacy. I do not necessarily agree with all its critics but it is a useful resource:

    https://digdeeper.neocities.org/articles/email

    I would recommend to buy your own domain in case you need to change again. That way, you’re not trapped by your email provider and you can change in case you’re not satisfied anymore

      • paequ2@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        13 days ago

        two guys running email?

        Is it? I can’t tell from the about me. It says “In 2014, two of us, Michael Bruderer and Dejan Strbac, started…”, but nothing else on the page talks about the size of the company. It started as two people, but is it currently two people? Anyone know?

        no 2FA support

        The webmail client does have 2FA, but when connecting via client there is no 2FA. Although, not sure what this would look like. Would you enter a TOTP every time you want to connect to the IMAP server? Or do you mean more like an OAuth2 flow, like Gmail, and that asks for your TOTP?

        I actually haven’t gotten around to playing with purelymail. Not sure if they handle this differently. What service are you thinking about?

      • ɐɥO@lemmy.ohaa.xyz
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        13 days ago

        Imap doesnt support 2fa.

        IMAP protocol as well email clients do not support second factor authentication for the mailboxes. Even if they did, IMAP connections are made way too often which would make authentication unusable. Imagine needing to enter your TOTP token every few minutes. We could enable 2FA on the webmail, but IMAP/POP/SMTP accesses remain unprotected which beats the purpose. We are working on solution here which will allow sand-boxing a username/password pair to a webmail use only. We do offer so called App-specific passwords via mailbox identities though. These are commonly touted by email providers as 2FA. They are not.

  • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee
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    13 days ago

    Perhaps an indirect answer, but I’m using a duck.com forwarder whenever i need to give any address, these days. On top of tracker filtering and random alias generator, once i change addresses I’ll only have to update the forwarders destination.

  • ray@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    13 days ago

    If you really wanna get started with your own domain I highly recommend just getting https://purelymail.com/ setup for the hosting provider. It’s going to be way cheaper than just about anything and you pay for what you use. I’ve been on it for a few years and never had a problem.