Posteo (email provider)

[anon72194287]

What is your opinion about posteo.de?
Email green, secure, simple and ad-free - posteo.de -
I think it should be added under the email section.

[jonah (Jonah Aragon)]

Best secure email service?

I think mailbox.org is the better choice because they actually have a DMARC policy. With posteo, anyone can spoof posteo domain and the remote mail server has no way of checking that. It’s a nice option to have, which is not possible with Posteo. They claim the reason is “for privacy”: Can I use Posteo with my own domains? No. We are an email provider with a particular, privacy-oriented model – and this is not compatible with incorporating own domains. One of our emphases is data economy…

[jonah (Jonah Aragon)]

Another thing to add, I’m pretty annoyed that their encryption marketing page cuts off this screenshot of Hardenize right above where they stop passing their tests while claiming they achieve “top marks” in the results.

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Risks of using Posteo (email provider without DMARC policy)

Well the source is not wrong, our requirement is just being misinterpreted in this thread. We don’t claim their policy doesn’t exist, we said it doesn’t meet the following criteria (which is true): If DMARC authentication is being used, the policy must be set to reject or quarantine. The fact of the matter is that we have 4 excellent mailbox providers who can meet all of the requirements we’re looking for. Posteo also recycles deleted email addresses, which we find to be problematic. That…