I’m way too late for the recommendation but I use mailbox.org for over four years now and I never had any problems. It is a great mail provider.
I use it with my own domain with a catch-all mail address to have a different mail address for every service.
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The best ftw 
I have over 20 alias addresses there (for each service).
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They are currently suffering from DDoS attacks it seems (as many other small providers).
Didn’t notice anything so far though.
Posteo got DDOS’d a few days ago 
The one email service I pay for (a bit less than $50/yr) is ProtonMail. It’s encrypted and protected by Switzerland’s internet privacy laws. There is a free account, but the paid account gives you access to encrypted online storage space and “ProtonMail Bridge” - which allows you to use ProtonMail with your favorite e-mail client. (I use Evolution).
Tutanota, desktop client in aur : tutanota-desktop-bin 
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I didn’t see anyone mention it, but you could use tutanota.com . It’s privacy
oriented with a free tier that will be more than sufficient for casual use.
Edit: Just saw that a) it’s a fairly old thread and b) someone mentioned it some replies before!
I’m running a similar setup, but sometimes I wonder, if aliases would be smarter. Because, as some others posted before, if you use aliases you can simply deactivate them if the mail address got leaked/pwnd to get rid of the spam/phishing mails. While with an catch-all account, you will receive them continiously.
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In the news:
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I’ll still use proton after reading the somewhat disturbing news in this thread
I’m not an activist or in hiding for anything, I just wanted to escape the intrusive and annoying practices by big tech companies
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I self-host my own email.
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I use a dutch independent provider soverin.net
Cheap and reliable (i have my own domainname)
I used to use google workspace but i wanted to be completely without any google services.
Never use your provider email, if you switch provider you will have a problem plus don’t put all your eggs in one basket
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I also have been using mailbox.org for 5 or 6 years for all of my personal email and they’re brilliant. All of their included features often cost additional fees from other providers.
I also use startmail.com for my business and have not had any problems - yet. Their customer service has been excellent, similar to mailbox.org.
I do have a gmail account, but only because I have an Android phone. I don’t actually use it for anything else. 
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Finally!
Though I won’t be using it. My browser and universal email client (thunderbird) are just fine. 
Recently stopped using the Tuta client too because it’s just a waste of space to have an email client dedicated to one email provider. In my opinion, anyway. 
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It is unfortunate that it is yet another electron application.
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A proton as an electron? That sounds like some broken physics to me. 
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