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Ask HN: Email Provider for Main Account?

22 points agent008t | 1 comments | 15 May 25 11:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source

Which email provider would you recommend for your main account? (Banking, government + other important stuff)

With Gmail, I am concerned that I could get arbitrarily locked out of my account with no recourse. Also, I wouldn't mind moving away from Google in general to support a more decentralized internet. If it is based outside of the US, even better. But these considerations are secondary.

So I am looking for something secure, reliable, and usable (good search, not getting overrun with spam) that I could use for the next few decades. Privacy is only important insofar as reasonable security is concerned (vague, I know, but my point is that practicality is more important).

What do you use and what have been the pros and cons?

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lesser23 ◴[15 May 25 14:40 UTC] No.43995584[source]▶

>>43993833 (OP) #

Fastmail these days with a custom domain.

I was on protonmail for years. But I found the integrations were not compatible with my ideal workflow. Their iPhone app also crashed all the time for me and you can’t use regular mail clients. For PCs you can use the bridge with a client but I found nothing like that for the phone.

WRT proton I think it was overkill for my use case. If I need complete secrecy I can use GPG over email.

I find Fastmail to be cheaper, faster, and more compatible for every day use. I also really like the email alias feature which I use all the time. Fastmail and a standalone VPN was significantly cheaper than protons offerings as well.

At the end of the day as long as you use a custom domain it doesn’t really matter where you go. Even Gmail works fine here. To me it just matters where you will compromise on usability for secrecy.

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1. bigfatkitten ◴[15 May 25 22:00 UTC] No.43999779[source]▶

The additional secrecy features provided by Proton seem like a waste of time when the bulk of your mail is exchanged with (and stored by) Microsoft and Google users.