Sorry, maybe I couldn’t clarify my thoughts before. But now with time, I have clearer thoughts.
See, Gmail and Outlook sell our data; that’s why these are free of cost. So, if I have to pay for any service I want, I can give my full trust to the provider company, though, as they are not such a big company and always have a risk of shutting down; still, I want to use the most trusted one.
Most of the encryptions only work for sending and receiving mails under the same provider or PGP-encrypted other providers. Nearly all emails I’m going to receive will come from either Gmail or Outlook, so no encryption will work here. Besides that, I’m not sharing any sensitive information through mail.
The main thing I am looking for in every email provider is whether I can trust them or not, and it totally depends on my mind; like I trust Tuta over Proton (just an example); maybe Proton has better infrastructure, better encryption, and more services to offer, but I don’t like Proton. As I use the mail app mainly on my mobile, I don’t have any experience with web-based mail providers.
Again, I am so sorry if there is still some unclarification from my side.
Yeah, StartMail is better than FastMail. Previously, I thought about going with Fastmail due to their mobile app support, but after discovering its con, I cancelled my plan.
You probably need to really clarify on what you’re looking for.
Also got to remember that email are inherited insecure. It was created in the 70’s without encryption in mind and it stays that way. To at least have some privacy, both party the sender and the receiver got to locally pgp encrypt. Those so called “encrypted” providers like proton, tuta or whatever doesn’t clearly mention the caveat with their “encryption” service; it’ll only be encrypted within their network so proton with proton, tuta with tuta, or if the sender locally pgp encrypt. If your usual mails mostly involves incoming receipts, login notif, 2fa codes etc then from providers pov they’re unencrypted. Facebook, twitter, paypal or whatever won’t pgp encrypt their mail sent to you. Yes it’ll be encrypted in transit but even gmail encrypt in transit, we’re really looking for e2e encryption if to really be sure of privacy. If proton or tuta or posteo or mailbox or whatever want to be nefarious, they could in theory make a copy of the unencrypted mail the moment it reaches their server and no one would be the wiser to know anything. It all boils down to trust. But even if you really trust the provider and if the mails is mostly login notif, receipts etc then you won’t be sure if they don’t be nefarious behind your back silently making a copy so stop trying to use email for 2-way private conversation, use proper encryption protocol like signal instead.