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.

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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. [sSGqpcKQAFPgEQR0] [bHU1KIYk7Iean14P] More related info to Posteo: …

I’ve been doing an in-depth exploration of private email providers. My conclusion is that Posteo is the best. There are 5 reasons in the links above for rejecting Posteo - None of which hold up. I shall respond one by one, and in doing so, demonstrate the advantages of Posteo. ‘Anyone can spoof p…

Interesting points, have you also looked into Disroot or other free providers? I’ve been considering switching away from Gmail but find it annoying that Proton/Tuta don’t support email clients.

I wouldn’t trust free services as no staff are obliged to support you when shit goes wrong. But let’s not divert the conversation which is about Posteo.

As highlighted in 4.5 of their terms, Posteo will terminate your contract after 2 months of not paying. So what they say in their faq about not deleting is untrue. Posteo’s spam filter has been acknowledged to be broken by numerous users, where it just straight up doesn’t receive the mail Posteo sa…

As highlighted in 4.5 of their terms, Posteo will terminate your contract after 2 months of not paying. So what they say in their faq about not deleting is untrue. In their terms: If the customer’s credit remains negative for two months despite warnings and reminder emails, the account’s abilit…

[image] plonkeyt: Plus, [Mailbox’s] open PGP seems not to work for custom domains and aliases, and requires users to give them the keys. Is this true? On their help article there’s an option to upload only the public key (so you need to use Mailvelope to use the webmail) and it doesn’t mentio…

I think the zero-knowledge encryption refers to the encrypted mailbox rather than the mailbox guard . For the Guard it says aliases are not supported but also “Users need to hand over their private PGP keys to be stored on our servers. Encryption and decryption both happen on the server side, hence …

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On another help article it says it only works for main account.

If you have more to say, I suggest doing so here.

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