Mailbox.ORG https://www.privacyguides.org/en/email/
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I use Proton and it has this bridge application where it connects to the Proton servers and then serves your mail to Thunderbird or whatever locally. So that might work for you, but I'm not sure.
Posteo is pretty great
i got on posteo recently, it's great. sometimes the webmail feels a little archaic but it's probably for good reasons and keeps costs down. every setting i could want is exposed and their guides are really good.
Fastmail.com https://www.fastmail.com/
Take a look at Migadu. Maybe that fits your criteria. I moved there from Tuta.
The FSF has a page with recommended mail services Free Software Webmail Systems
Riseup.net.
I was going to use riseup as a cock.li replacement, but then I saw the trouble riseup got into and decided not to use it.
I am currently hosting my own email on a server that I rent and I am absolutely sick and tired of email issues, spam, google randomly being assholes and blocking my family's traffic, just stupid shit. It's a second fucking job at times. I have DKIM, DMARC, SPF all configured correctly, Google just randomly decides to stop my traffic randomly. Which of these options would you recommend for say up to 20 email accounts or so, using your own domain? I assume all of these options do things like spam filtering on the back end.
To be clear, I am not looking for free, just reasonable.
For privacy specifically take a look at https://www.privacyguides.org/en/email/ .
For just a paid provider where you are the customer not the product, consider FastMail or a hosting offering such as NameCheap. By hosting I mean the one that is part of their hosting plans not their email specific offering though that is interesting also but quite expensive.
I had the idea of creating an email server in the future, but everyone I told that to told me it was a terrible idea.
Server no. But hosted domain email is probably what I will do in the next year. Probably at Fastmail or at Namecheap. I have the domain just waiting.
In a way, I already have a mail server on my VPS, just never installed IMAP. Not what I want for every day though.
Fastmail was never a recommended privacy specific provider if that is the big concern. Does not mean they do not have value.
Personally livng in the US I prefer a US provider. Geopolitics is one driver. Also US gov is not allowed to spy on their own citizens. If on the other hand they cross the border things are different. Not really many good US choices. EU has a lot of good choices.
I have been using Disroot Mail since August. It's a nice mail provider focused on not harvesting/selling your data.
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