Hi all,

We're looking to get off Rackspace's email as the Spam filtering is pure garbage. We're going to avoid the Googles and MS's of the world, and I'm wondering if this community has suggestions for mail providers that run FOSS services (and are public about that via support), and/or are privacy focused. Note: Proton is a no-go due to having to run an IMAP middle-man service.

Thanks!

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[–] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Mailbox.org is another candidate worth looking into.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    They are very generous with aliases too: 25 mailbox aliases, 50 custom domain aliases. Compare to Proton, which allows only 10 non-revocable aliases for their domains and custom domains combined.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Check Posteo. Working great for me since I left gmail.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Posteo is also my choice. It's now not only my main E-Mail adress, but also my sync for calendar and adressbook. When i decided not to use Google any more several years ago i considered hosting my own server or use a service. I ended up with Posteo and so far never regret it. Paying 1€/month is a better deal for me than maintaining my own server, as they use their own server which are located in Germany and seem to be really trustworthy.

    Another quite similar service in Germany would be mail.de

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Another quite similar service in Germany would be mail.de

    Never heard of them. But their website says "try ad-free". That implies that they display ads after the trial!? If that's the case, they can't be trusted.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    https://runbox.com/

    Norwegian, privacy, ethical focus.

    https://runbox.com/blog/2018/12/runbox-7-is-going-open-source/

    Open source software powers most of the Internet, and makes up a large part of the platform Runbox is running on. Now Runbox 7 will become part of this global collaboration, and you can join in by visiting the Runbox repository on Github: https://github.com/runbox.

    Not sure how much of their stack is open source but they work with providers who also specialise in open source (see 'Partners'):

    https://runbox.com/about/

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    I second this recommendation. I don't use the Disroot app on my phone, but they also offer a bunch of other great apps beyond emails in case you are interested. You can check them on their website. They're all FOSS and free to use. Most of them don't even require an account.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    They're also a Dutch non-profit organization, and both their services and their infra are all developed/maintained in the open using exclusively open-source projects.

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    [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Proton is a fascist-sympathizing walled garden and Tuta is a walled garden.

    Mailbox.org is the best!

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    Hmm, is something going on with their site? I'm unable to load this.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Any provider which provides IMAP and SMTP over TLS is good. If you want privacy, you have to use E2EE through a mail software which supports it. However, I personally use riseup.net(Don't ask me for an invite code!)

    As a bonus, there is also DeltaChat which provides E2EE email in a nice chat interface. https://delta.chat/ It also supports mini apps through https://webxdc.org/

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