What are your thoughts about the Email Provider Posteo? I only see people talking about mailbox, they’re both pretty similar but I just wanna hear what you think about it.
Based in Germany, pretty good reputation, kinda dated Webmail interface but I only really use email clients anyways. Kinda feel like it deserves the same representation as mailbox unless I’m missing something, anyways interested to see your answers!
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I have used it 1 year ago to test it out so the experience is good if not great but not having E2EE (by default) is kind of a shame but you can enable it! :
https://posteo.de/en/help/how-do-i-activate-posteo-crypto-mail-storage
You can also encrypt your address book and your contacts :
https://posteo.de/en/help/how-does-encryption-of-the-address-book-and-calendar-work
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It is very similar to Mailbox, but I like Posteo better overall. Mailbox has a confusing UI and some of their features are a bit half-baked. Privacy Guides delisted Posteo because they have a DMARC policy of “none”, which isn’t great, but isn’t the end of the world either, in my opinion. Overall, I think Posteo is the best $1/month private email option. I went into a bit more detail in a blog post here: Finding a Privacy-Friendly Email Provider - Gunther's Guides & More
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In 2013, after the sudden shutdown of Lavabit in response to a secret demand by the FBI that it turn over the server’s TLS private key (because Edward Snowden was a customer), I set about looking for a replacement. My choice was Posteo.
Factors favoring Posteo include:
• The ability to encrypt data at rest on the server including email, calendars, and contacts;
• A years-long track record in providing email service, which is Posteo’s core business;
• A sustainable business model;
• Highly reliable service;
• Non-anonymous corporate leadership;
• Less likely to be blocked than better-known private email providers such as Proton. For example, you can access Posteo in China without a VPN;
• Modest pricing;
• Anonymous payment options, including sending cash in the mail.
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I like everything about them but they don’t support custom domains which is a deal breaker for me.
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I was really impressed with Posteo, I used them for over a year before switching to Proton, and Posteo’s services were very user friendly and simple!
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Ah I was wondering why they didn’t have Posteo listed, thought it was just because they didn’t know it existed tbh
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That’s something a lot of other Email providers don’t offer right? AFAIK proton can’t encrypt your contacts
Why did you switch?
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AFAIK Tutanota offers address book and contacts encryption (by default).
Proton only encrypts the display names and email addresses of these contacts at rest but they don’t have Zero-knowledge encryption, so Proton can still access your contacts, quoting Proton :
Your contacts’ display names and email addresses are encrypted at rest but are not secured using zero-access encryption. This means that we can access this information.
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As of today, still no DMARC policy…
Maybe let’s send an e-mail to them…
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I think the PG team already reached out to them and they said they have no plan to change it (Remove Posteo and updated criteria by tommytran732 · Pull Request #369 · privacyguides/privacyguides.org · GitHub) but it can’t hurt to have more people bring it to their attention.
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