Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?

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Post by ar7hur » Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 4:44 AM UTC

peatmoss wrote: post #9

Most important thing is to buy a domain so you can port your email address from provider to provider. I’ve had the same email address and several hosts over the years. I’m currently on Fastmail and find the service good.

+1 for Fastmail with my own domain, I've used it for 4 years.

Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?

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Post by BlindRabbit » Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 4:44 AM UTC

https://www.migadu.com/

Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?

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Post by rgovostes » Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 4:45 AM UTC

I'd like to switch to Fastmail, but I have a handful of seldom-used secondary accounts (e.g., for family members), and it doesn't make sense to pay $5/mo/each when they're free on G Suite. Their pricing structure is designed for organizations or single users, but somehow my use case falls in between.

It seems a bit off that my household can stream as many movies as we want for $11/mo, or have unlimited access to an enormous music catalog for $15/mo, but e-mail service costs more.

ProtonMail looks about the same, actually more expensive, though they have a more attractive $30/mo plan for 6 users that it includes VPN access.

Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?

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Post by taterbase » Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 4:46 AM UTC

Check out https://posteo.de/en. 12EUR/yr and comes recommended by the fsf[1].

[1]https://www.fsf.org/resources/webmail-systems

Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?

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Post by witten » Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 4:46 AM UTC

ivanfon wrote: post #11

I use Thunderbird on desktop and K9-Mail on Android.

Same. But what do you use for the mail server?

Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?

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Post by Endy » Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 4:46 AM UTC

ivanfon wrote: post #11

I use Thunderbird on desktop and K9-Mail on Android.

That doesn't actually provide an alternative, those are just clients.

Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?

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Post by Endy » Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 4:47 AM UTC

I'm the weird one, I use Yahoo.

Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?

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Post by pedrogpimenta » Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 4:50 AM UTC

I'm super happy with mailbox.org, it has a feature that I've never seen in other place which is disposable addresses so that you can make accounts wherever you want without fear of spam! You just deactivate that email when you want or it will expire in 30 days.

Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?

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Post by soufron » Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 4:54 AM UTC

Buy a domain and use Thunderbird, or another email software!

Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?

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Post by ulrikrasmussen » Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 4:55 AM UTC

Regardless of which provider you choose, consider getting your own domain name. Then your email address its not linked to the provider, and you can easily change again in the future.