What do Fedi people think about #Posteo email service? I'm pondering my choices in case of degoogling and finding a good email provider isn't easy.
Here's my criteria:
It's an email provider. Not everything-you-never-needed in one ugly unwieldy box and a stupid AI on the side.
I don't care about so called privacy and encryption, it's a marketing fad. These services are just huge targets for governmental blocking. So wherever you cool hackers are, I'm staying away. I want to be with common people. I don't want to be a collateral damage.
I don't care about Five Eyes, Nine Eyes, etc. Whatever I write on the Internet could be written on the wall, for everything else there is PGP.
I care about respectability and stability. So this service has to be in business for at least 10 years and not run by a group of enthusiasts.
POP3/IMAP support without restrictions.
So this leaves me with two options: #Fastmail and #Posteo
Fastmail is great, I used it in the past when it was twenty something dollars a year, but now it's too expensive. $5 a month and most features are overkill. 60Gb of space is ten times more than all my working documents combined.
Posteo is cheap and affordable, 2Gb is more than enough. But I don't really know if it's good and reliable.
Other sane alternatives are welcome, of course. #Email
Niedługo będzie rok jak korzystam z poczty na Posteo i na pewno przedłużę o kolejny rok. Najlepsza poczta dla "domowego" użytkownika.
Koszt to euro miesięcznie (płatne z góry na rok) i mnie wystarczy.
Prywatność? Od razu.
Szybkość? Idealna.
Wyłączenie folderu ze spamem? Da się.
Kalendarz plus kontakty? By default.
Interfejs? Może w stylu 2005, ale i tak korzystam z Thunderbirda.
Nie giną żadne maile, po prostu działa. Potrzebowałem wyłącznie poczty i dla mnie jest idealna.
I was researching WebMail providers, and noticed that most WebMail providers recommended in privacy communities are labelled as proprietary by AlternativeTo. ...
Charger8232 Lists from #Alternativeto (which this is based on) are usually not very reliable and show information that just isn't correct on a service or often includes services that are not real Alternatives to what you were looking for in the first place. The only thing that helps against that is doing your own research.
To pick out one example (I don't have time to them all): they list #Posteo as being proprietary which just isn't correct. That company is as #opensource as they come.
Why are most "privacy" WebMail providers labelled as proprietary?
I was researching WebMail providers, and noticed that most WebMail providers recommended in privacy communities are labelled as proprietary by AlternativeTo. ...