How many of you have switched from ProtonMail to Tuta?

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Posteo publishes its users’ public keys through WKD, as indicated in Help - EasyGPG: How do I publish my public PGP key in Posteo's key directory via Web Key Directory (WKD)? - posteo.de

Posteo is mainly an email provider, but it also has an webmail client, which requires the Mailvelope add-on to fetch (in two clicks) any recipient’s public key published through WKD ( Help - How do I send an end-to-end encrypted email in the Posteo webmail interface and how do I make encrypted emails readable? - posteo.de ).

Mailbox can publish public keys through WKD but it is not default and thus has to be set up (Availability of Web Key Directory (WKD) for PGP | mailbox user forum)

Mailbox’s webmail client is not able to fetch recipients’ public keys by WKD, which is disappointing and a bit weird, as it is able to fetch them in more difficult places and ways. (Sending encrypted emails with Guard | Knowledge Base: Knowledge and help | mailbox)

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doesn’t that just mean i can retrieve the key from a posteo user to send an email to a posteo address? we were talking the other way around. but since we both don’t use posteo nor mailbox, we should probably shut up and keep this on topic :slightly_smiling_face:

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You’re right, my mistake. We can just hope that Posteo also does it the other way, which is likely. That’s what Proton does, actually, and that’s why it doesn’t retrieve only Proton users’ keys but any key of any recipient having a WKD-compliant email provider. It’s literally one line of code; I tested it.

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I’m thinking of using Mailfence; it offers a suite of other tools, and the best part is it’s actually a lot more affordable than Proton Mail. I know what you mean about the Chrome-based browser; it’s completely out of character for a privacy company. They have heard of Manifest v3. Now why would you want to support a browser like that? We need competition, and right now Gecko is the only one. Hopefully, Ladybird-based browser will start showing up.

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Dont forget that there’s also Mailvelope which works with pretty much all webmail clients, including all the big names like Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, etc.

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You’re right !

I think I tried it for a few weeks many years ago, before switching to Proton, so I don’t know how convenient it has become today.

But if it’s a solution that you can utilize on your Grandma’s browser, Mailvelope could be the single actor doing more for global email encryption than any other actor. Alas, Mailvelope claimed only 250,000 users in 2025, which is a shame.

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Does it encrypt sender address and subject?

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Would you say that SimpleLogin is better than Addy? I also agree that this is the feature that I value most and I have been considering paying for Addy but I’m also trying to de-google. So going to the value argument above, I already have Proton VPN and now I’m thinking about just getting their premium to get all the things vs paying more split among many different vendors.

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When I was assessing both tools (about a year ago), they were pretty equitable in terms of aliasing capability in a vacuum. SimpleLogin’s advantage was just its integration with Proton’s services & Unlimited offering (SL is bundled with PMail & PVault)

So if you’re planning to use Proton anyway, SL may be cheaper/more convenient. But otherwise it’s really just a matter of UI preference

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I’ve run into more addy.io aliases being blocked than SL, YMMV.

I dream of getting rid of Apple Hide my Emails but dang having an @icloud.com random email is convenient bc it’s never blocked.