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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Is Tuta a good alternative to gmail? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been looking to switch from gmail to a different email provider that's more private. I've been hearing about Tuta, are there any drawbacks to it? Are there better options?

For a while I was planning on making the switch to protonmail but that's off the table now due to the recent events surrounding them.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not Tuta but I adore Fastmail.

No BS. No gimmicks. Just privacy aware, protocol conformant E-mail at a reasonable price.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

5€/month for email? 😵

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah. Email's actually quite unpleasant (not hard) to do well. Look sideways at anyone doing it free or super-cheap.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm selfhosting with mailcow and it's great

But I agree, setting it up from scratch is really annoying

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Services cost money to run. Either you pay for the product or you are the product.

Make your choice, name your poison. No skin off my nose in any case :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean I self host for 4€/month and I could fit multiple emails in there

Email is pretty much just about storage at some point, and there are a lot more cost effective servers for this, than a simple VPS

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Self hosting email is a non trivial effort. I've done it before and am in zero rush to do it again.

And before you tell me "Oh hey I've had no problems at all with delivery getting blocked by GOOG or MSFT" good on you but that has NOT been a lot of people's experience trying to self host their E-mail, including mine.