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Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?

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Outlook.com (free) and Office365 (a few $/month/user on your own domain) are both great options. I personally much prefer both the web client and the various app clients to gmail's equivalents.

i doubt that MS is an improvement over Google when it comes to privacy concerns.

MSFT doesn't read your email to target you with ads.

Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?

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If you need strong privacy, then go to ProtonMail.

Otherwise, try https://yandex.com. For personal domains you can use https://connect.yandex.com, which is free (with ads) for unlimited users or $3 per user per month (available in several countries) without ads.

I've been using Yandex Connect for quite long time (free and paid). They are very good.

Yandex Connect goes with Email (fully unlimited), Cloud Storage, Wiki and Simple Messenger. There is also an option to control domain's DNS, but it's optional.

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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.

Fastmail has worked well for me with custom domains. It's nice being able to create custom aliases for when an address is publicly visible e.g. GitHub so I know through what funnel emails are coming from. Like others have said, the Android app is not worth installing unless you're okay with limited and, in some cases, poor functionality. I suppose you can set it up with the Gmail or Outlook Android apps? I've never t…

You can funnel mail with Gmail, too using extensions. Although some online forms incorrectly reject this. Looks like this: notmyaddress+github@gmail.com

Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?

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If you need strong privacy, then go to ProtonMail. Otherwise, try https://yandex.com . For personal domains you can use https://connect.yandex.com , which is free (with ads) for unlimited users or $3 per user per month (available in several countries) without ads. I've been using Yandex Connect for quite long time (free and paid). They are very good. Yandex Connect goes with Email (fully unlimited), Cloud Storage, Wi…

Yandex is a Russian mail-service. I wouldn't trust them. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13274443

Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?

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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 e…

I had the same problem and I recently switch to Runbox.com, migration was frictionless and their service is solid

Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?

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If you need strong privacy, then go to ProtonMail. Otherwise, try https://yandex.com . For personal domains you can use https://connect.yandex.com , which is free (with ads) for unlimited users or $3 per user per month (available in several countries) without ads. I've been using Yandex Connect for quite long time (free and paid). They are very good. Yandex Connect goes with Email (fully unlimited), Cloud Storage, Wi…

> Otherwise, try https://yandex.com.

Hahah. Left google for KGB - 100% profit.

Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?

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Do not just consider Google to release your data like that. The news may be broadcast that third parties will have access to your data now. Google had always been keeping data for long. Switching to another platform may not be the best because those ones too never secure data. Then why should switch, except you have another aim of switching.

Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?

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free version of protonmail works for me but it's extremely slow

also, it's switzerland and I don't trust switzerland because they have a long history of protecting both corrupt govs and criminals alike with 'anonymoyus banking'

That may not exist anymore, but the criminal networks have already won, and that's switzerlands fault

also it's where the cia and post-nazis store their money (coincidence? I think not)

Eventually some madman like myself is going to come to power and the first thing they'll do if they are smart is to Nuke switzlerand. No one will see that coming

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