Anyone here use a different email service to the usual? Curious to hear opinions (gmail and Outlook)

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Using Thunderbird email client for many years now.

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Thanks for your input regarding the self-hosting. Itā€™s interesting to hear about this from someone who has managed this kind of setup themselves.

I will avoid this it doesnā€™t sound like something I would want to manage on top of everything else I do. Maybe at most I will read about it to learn but not for anything I want to actually use.

I will give fastmail a check among other options too once Iā€™ve gathered all suggestions as I have had a lot of feedback and need to gather everything up. Thanks for your recommendation and I will take a look.

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Thunderbird has been my email client for years and years but the last few years have been experiencing problems with it in new updates.
Found BetterBird last year and like it much better, (keeps the same user interface after updates).

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I havenā€™t really experienced any issues.

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I just started using EOS this Summer so canā€™t comment on any issues with TB here but had been using LMint for the last 5 years and experienced several issues with changing user interfaces in TB as many others did.

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I self-host my email server with my own domain at home: alias@customdomain.com.

Many people will warn you that itā€™s not worth the effort and that your emails will end up in spam folders, but thatā€™s only true if you donā€™t know what youā€™re doing. While having a clean static IP is essential, itā€™s entirely possible to run a reliable email server with the right configuration and knowledge.

Iā€™ve been doing this for a few years now, and not a single email has been lost or wrongly marked as spam.

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One of my primary emails is under ProtonMail. It works well and it does what I need. I use the free tier and it is plenty for me at the moment.

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Thatā€™s kind of the point. It is hard to know everything and anything without putting effort. The effort required is mostly useless, unless you distrust every single email provider to such a degree that you would rather self-host.

I will say, however, that if you want to do it or if you want to learn, go for it. Practically, I donā€™t see it making a lot of sense, but as a learning exercise and just for plain fun, why not.

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I use https://posteo.de/en in Germany and pay 1 EUR a month.

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I use mailbox.org and Thunderbird on EndeavourOS. On GrapheneOS K-9 Mail.

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Self hosting will likely be something I research and do some learning on it and gather knowledge so I have a full understanding of it.

For now until I get that knowledge, if I end up using it, I will find an email service just to get my emails off Outlook and gmail to a different account. If my testing of self host goes well then I may start using it but I will take a learning path first.

Two different opinions of self host so far which for me means itā€™s worth a try and see what happens.

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Thanks for the suggestion. I will be gathering everyoneā€™s thoughts here and go through them later. I have a really old proton account from back when they were only accepting new accounts if they approved and wasnā€™t public yet. I decided to check with everyone here since a lot can happen in all those years and I no longer have my login for it.

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Posteo was one I come across while doing my initial research, it does look interesting from what I read about it. Thanks.

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I use Proton suite - not only Mail, but also Drive service.
I donā€™t complain, both are reliable and very reassuringly their servers are in Europe.

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I rarely use email nowadays. The only purpose for me using it is registrations, subscriptions etc. For that I use Gmail and Outlook. For personal use there is Zoho mail. On my laptops I have Thunderbird to access them all.

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I use zoho mail. Itā€™s geared for business but Iā€™ve been using it for years. It has more stuff than I care to learn. It s has done me well, and I donā€™t plan on changing.

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Hi,

I use Tuta, Infomaniak (cloud provider) and Murena e.email (because of Android eOS). But Iā€™m a big user and consumer of emails.
I also use a self hosting solution. I think itā€™s hard at the beginning because you must learn to use and manage the different protocols and services : SMTP, IMAP, POP, DNS, and the software connected with (Postfix, Dovecot,ā€¦).
This combines different layers : hardware, network, database management, and so on.
If you want to improve your technical knowledge, itā€™s perfect but very time-consuming. In addition, safety-related aspects are essential and often neglected due to lack of experience (your server as an open relay is a good example).
There is a packaged solution : Modoboa but i never tried it.

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I trust Bitwarden, but I still choose to self-host my own Vaultwarden server for the same reason.

Even if a mail provider is trustworthy, I canā€™t physically verify how they protect my data. When I self-host, I know exactly what steps Iā€™m taking to secure my information, and that peace of mind is invaluable to me.

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I run my own Server (postfix, rspamd, etc.)

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As a service, I use Proton Mail. As an email app, Thunderbird has served me well. As others have mentioned, I think itā€™s important to use email aliases to minimize data breaches. Both Proton, via Proton Pass, and duckduckgo offer aliases that can also be used for replies.
Another possibility, though it will cost a little money, is to register your own domain name. If your email address is important to you, this can be useful to you, because you are no longer @gmail or @protonmail but @anyone-i-want-to-be. You also have much more control over your email address than if that address is a company that might go out of business or fall into bad practices.

Then you will need create email addresses with your domain name and host them somehow. As a website builder I host email addresses where I host my websites. As mentioned elsewhere you can also set up your own email server if you donā€™t mind the trouble. Another possibility is domain registrars that offer to set up an email address with a domain name you register with them. Iā€™ve seen deals for $2 a month or so for this service. Then you could use Thunderbird within EndeavourOS to access the mail. Duckduckgo can provide you with aliases that will forward to your email address that uses your domain name.

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