What other free options are out there? Proton Mail’s free plan restricts to only 3 folders.
EDIT: After careful discussion with others, I’ve reluctantly decided to stick to Gmail, because we don’t know if these other providers will still be around 50 years from now.
I’ve been a Posteo customer for a few years and they’ve been great. €1 a month, mail storage encryption, works great with any IMAP client.
As good as the intentions of Tutanota and Proton are with free plans, the likes of Gmail have taught me to be very wary of free plans of anything.
They’re also hosted entirely in Germany, and really transparent about how many government requests they receive, most of which they outright deny.
Also, you can pay by literally mailing them cash, which I find mostly funny, but it does allow for true anonymity.
Furthermore they use Greenpeace Energy (a renewable energy company) in order to keep alive their mail servers, which is one more reason that differentiates them from the others :). This is what keeps me from going elsewhere yet again.
I signed up to Disroot a few months ago. The free option supports IMAP, which is what made it for me. It’s also more than just email (they have stuff like a pastebin and even a Forgejo instance)
no free imap support is a dealbreaker
I’ve been searching a lot and the only free imap I found was gmail, hotmail, and Vivaldi.net. So yeah, lots and lots of dealbreakers everywhere.
I had no idea that Vivaldi had a mail service. But you must use their Vivaldi browser to access it, huh?
@Dymonika no, it’s a normal free webmail. It also comes with a blog and mastodon account. The only verification to be able to use the webmail with imap is to be active on the mastodon account for a couple of days - just to prove that you are a human. And it works very well, been using that for over a year, recommended.
Tuta is most likely a honeypot, and in any case it is pseudo-open source so it’s offtopic in this community.
Oh my gosh, thanks for the heads-up. I had no idea!
For fairness, here is Tuta’s response to the allegations: https://tuta.com/blog/tutanota-not-a-honeypot
There really is no way to verify that any email service isn’t a honeypot. Even if you open source your server code, that doesn’t mean it’s what’s actually running on the server. They could publish served code then be running totally different code on their servers with no way to tell.
Tuta’s biggest weaknesses for me right now are the seeming lack of independent audits and the lack of interoperability for encryption. Proton is the biggest competitor and seems to have both. However, Proton has grown more in the way that a honeypot would, adding VPN, cloud storage, password manager, etc, so more data collection points. Tuta is still email, contacts, and calendar.
Their own encryption technology is kind of useless because impractical. However I don’t want to judge whether it’s secure or not. You can only send encrypted messages to other tuta users. No pgp / smime support. If you want to send someone without tuta an encrypted message, they will send them an email with a link where they can enter a password you have agreed on. So if you want to communicate with officials, banks, companies etc. you will always disable it. Also those encrypted messages will never be deleted as one might be able to access it via the link later. This causes your ‘free’ storage to fill up with old garbo.
Which officials, banks and companies would know what to do with a PGP or S/MIME encrypted email anyway?
Also, can’t you free up storage by deleting the email from the sent folder?
- JustMarkov ( @JustMarkov@lemmy.ml ) 4•7 months ago
I use it as a secondary email (Proton is primary).
Works great and IMAP support isn’t necessary for me. Also I like Tuta’s UI way more than Gmail’s or Proton’s. 
I am leaving Tuta because they keep putting ads in my inbox and labelling them news.
im trying to slump myself to leave for proton
I tried Tutanota, but I wasn’t getting all my emails so I scrapped it for criptext.com. I also use Yahoo & Yandex mail as spare accounts, but I still use Google. Can’t seem to break free
I just pay £5 a month for server hosting, which includes unlimited mailboxes I can connect to with Geary and K-9 via SMTP.
Did you set everything up yourself? If so how is it going, what mail stack are you using?
Edit: my bad, I think I understand what you meant now. You’re using the hosts email features for the service your paying for.
I did got a deal 20$ for 2 years something like that so far so good but i’m a pretty basic email user