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Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

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351 points giuliomagnifico | 2 comments | 22 Aug 25 17:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.56s | source
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NoboruWataya ◴[22 Aug 25 18:11 UTC] No.44987746[source]▶
I have been using mailbox.org for a few years and no complaints. I don't think the web UI is amazing but I use it via Thunderbird so it doesn't affect me.

If you use your own email client and your own domain name, you don't really need to worry about UI with email providers at all (as long as your provider supports those features). And your own domain name makes it easy to move around in future if you need to.

I don't really have any plans to move away from mailbox.org, though I just saw the post about Thunderbird offering an email service in the future. That might actually prompt me to move as I'd like to support the makers of a FOSS email client I've been happily using for years.

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guerrilla ◴[22 Aug 25 18:15 UTC] No.44987801[source]▶
It doesn't sound like they do on-disk encryption like ProtonMail. Is that right?
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gruez ◴[22 Aug 25 18:19 UTC] No.44987857[source]▶
You mean e2e? on-disk encryption (ie. "encryption at rest") is basically used by everyone, including gmail and outlook.
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1. guerrilla ◴[22 Aug 25 18:44 UTC] No.44988228[source]▶
You can tell how well I've researched this ;) but yes.
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2. burnte ◴[22 Aug 25 22:13 UTC] No.44990495[source]▶
Indeed. The HTTPS connection is enecrypted, and they TRY to use TLS first when delivering mail, but it will fall back to cleartext easily if the other end doesn't support TLS.