I’ve been subscribed to Proton Unlimited for a little while now and enjoying the services, but I also want to know what made other people choose Tutanota or Posteo over Proton. Was it cost? Transparency/security stuff? Location data is held? I’m exploring a lot of things in the privacy space and seeing what else is out there. Wanted to create this thread as a more recent post people could look at as well.
I went with Posteo and have been happy with it. The only meaningful advantage of Tutanova and Proton that I’m aware of is the encryption, but that only works if the person you’re communicating with also uses their service, so I figure what’s the point? I’ve also heard of various problems people have had with with both of them. And, at least at the time I checked, you had to use a browser or electron interface to access them though their own UI. With Posteo I added the account to Thunderbird and I access it through SMTP via TB’s mechanisms (e.g. auto-checking every X minutes and popping up a system notification when there’s a new email) just like with my other email account.
Something that has made Posteo pretty appealing to me so far is how flexible its pricing is. I get to pay for more feature when I need more stuff.
Yeah, it’s also easy to pay for several months ahead at a time, and they don’t keep your personal info.
Big fan of Posteo here too. I’ve always found their customer support very responsive and helpful.
The only drawback for me is that they don’t support custom domains, which I can understand. I’ve yet to wrap my head round how I could use use a Posteo emal address alongside multiple aliases on a custom domain (perhaps using something like addy.io or similar).
So far the best solution for me has been using SimpleLogin since they’re paid plans allow unlimited aliases and custom domains (and also comes with my Proton Unlimited subscription). I know Posteo and Tutanota have their own solutions but SimpleLogin has been more flexible in my experience. Yet to try out Posteo’s and Tutanota’s solutions.
I also have a Tuta account which is where I use my custom domain addresses (the number of aliases is unlimited there too, and I have so many!).
From what I’ve read, I’m not sure Posteo has a solution to this issue. I’ve read about a workaround, but also that it might have some issues.
But I do love Posteo for their stance on privacy and use of green energy, and the price is so reasonable. I’m thinking I might just have half a dozen or aliases there: one for mailing lists, one for online ordering, one for non-essential website logins and so on.
Oh didn’t notice Tutanota allowed unlimited aliases as well. From what I read OK Posteo’s FAQ, Posteo doesn’t allow custom domains because it would be personal information and even if you just had the MX record, it’d still be traceable in some way.
I personally create an alias for each account I create using my subdomains but have been thinking about using my custom domain a bit more. Only have my Matrix account using it lol. Was also thinking of splitting up my mailboxes a bit since each service has their own solution, but I’ll see if that works for me lol.