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[โ€“] cRazi_man@europe.pub 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I haven't tried Posteo, but I can vouch for Mailbox being absolutely amazing. I've been with them for years and picked them at the start of my degoogling journey. I was really happy to have a single service that took so much of google off my phone.....email, contacts sync, calendar, online drive, etc etc.

[โ€“] SrMono@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago

I can second this impression on a personal level and for two small business.

[โ€“] Temperche@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't forget Tuta and ProtonMail.

Tuta >>> Proton

I still don't like the proton CEO being a bootlicker

[โ€“] ashughes@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago

Iโ€™ve used both in the past but am now using neither. If being able to use a custom domain is a requirement then you really only have one option between these two: mailbox.org.

Neither of them truly โ€œwinโ€ though and I wish people would stop it with these reductive questions.

[โ€“] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Eager to return to this thread when more people have had their say.

[โ€“] Sunshine@piefed.ca 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Iโ€™m glad Iโ€™m not only one divided on this ๐Ÿ˜†

Maybe the best answer is: Never rely on only a single company and spread out.

[โ€“] Kynn@jlai.lu 7 points 1 week ago

Used posteo for 4 years. Pretty good, rules engine is better than a lot of other ones. Support also answers fast.

A few time-out or slow moments probably because they have too many clients. Visible only during a minor part of my 4 years.

But some people didnโ€™t receive my mail, which made me change mail service.

[โ€“] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

Personally, I prefer Posteo. It's cheap, it's simple, the pricing is flat, and it's fully open-source (and LibreJS compliant).

[โ€“] john_t@piefed.ee 2 points 1 week ago

I used mailbox.org for some time. They gradually removed features from their "basic" 1 euro plan until it was the same as posteo. So I moved to posteo.