Hi all, a couple of years back I moved to Proton on a 2 year plan. Then the CEO started spouting Trump stuff. I cancelled at the time but the subscription is only now up for renewal.

I have moved everything across to Tuta recently, but I don’t like it, so I’m looking for further suggestions.

Why didn’t Tuta work for me?

  • No function to auto-forward emails to another email address.
  • No bridge or IMAP so I can’t connect to Paperless
  • Mobile app is janky - when I swipe to archive, it sort of sits there for a while as it talks to the server. And just generally it feels slow like it’s waiting for the server for every action instead of backgrounding the requests.
  • Web app is weird. It doesn’t even have an archive button, I have to use “Move -> Archive” making it slow to go through my inbox.
  • Importing emails is only available on their most expensive plan. Weird to not want people to move to your platform? (it also couldn’t handle 15000 emails, I had to load them 1000 at a time)

Things I want:

  • Must support custom domain
  • Must support catchall
  • Must support forwarding an email to another email address based on the “to” address
  • Must not be run by dicks (e.g. Trump supporting CEO or Proton, union busting like Fastmail, and no big tech) - as close as possible at least
  • Should have some method to connect to my self-hosted Paperless NGX (e.g. Proton’s bridge, or just IMAP)
  • Should have emails encrypted from provider if possible - not sure if anyone other than Proton or Tuta do this.
  • Should support GPG
  • Should allow importing email history from previous provider
  • Should have a nice web/mobile app or allow IMAP. Bonus points if I don’t have to use the Play store.

Honestly I’d put up with the janky app if Tuta had the functions I want, I mostly just want my money going to some provider that aren’t dicks, but having the provider not be able to read my emails would be a bonus.

Anyone got suggestions for me?

Update: I’ve gone with Mailbox.org for now, which meets pretty much all of the above to some extent.

  • Dave@lemmy.nzOPEnglish
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    8 days ago

    This article was posted by someone the other day in relation to Proton’s AI slop, and it mentions:

    So who’s left? Fastmail are encouraging AI users with an MCP server.

    Also, Fastmail are union busters. They fired most of a union bargaining unit in 2024. Fastmail said this was just a restructuring. One that just happened to mostly fire the union organisers. Coincidence, I’m sure.

    So that’s not great.

    I did try Posteo (via Thunderbird) for a bit and generally liked it, but didn’t like not having a way to easily sync labels/tags between my devices.

    I can’t see anything mentioned about custom domains, and their site just feels slow?

    • Corvus Cornix@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Yeah sorry I tried to strikethrough my original part about Fastmail after I re-read your post. I had thought Posteo supported custom domains, but it looks like that’s not the case.

      It looks like you settled on Mailbox, but if you need other options in the future I suppose you could potentially combine Posteo with something like Addy.io, which would cover your bases for both email aliases and bringing in a custom domain.