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[โ€“] derpgon@programming.dev 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Be careful, Tuta does not support IMAP/POP3, and you'll have to use their own client.

[โ€“] stormeuh@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Wow, thanks for mentioning this, I'm seriously looking at moving away from gmail, and Tuta was my frontrunner. Sad that they aren't more upfront about this... I see Proton is kind of the same to some extent, but then they have a local bridge application which translates their protocol to IMAP/SMTP. Does anyone have experience with that?

[โ€“] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't know about that but swiss privacy law is about to get so terrible that I wouldn't switch to it unless they rebase.

Every mail service has a drawback

Posteo can't do custom domains

Mailbox.org has non-anonymous registration + tracking

Proton is based in Switzerland with horrible incoming privacy laws

Nubo is a startup and unproven security-wise

Tuta doesn't allow 3rd party clients

Startmail has no calendar

[โ€“] Deebster@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago

Thanks for the heads-up about the Swiss laws. I currently use kolabnow which is Swiss, but I don't know if I hate the changes enough to go through the hassle of the switch.

[โ€“] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago

Don't use proton if you want to use the normal protocols. I made the error and have just finished getting away a few months ago my recommendation is mailbox.org, really happy with that one.

[โ€“] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I've been using Proton Bridge for over a year and it works really well - lets me use Thunderbird and my phone's native mail app wihout issues, just remember to keep the bridge app running on your computer.