Is Gmail still the go-to email provider for generic email addresses?

Looking to create an email account for a new position. Which would be best out of Gmail, Proton, Fastmail?

Doesn’t need to be tied to a domain, so happy to use the default.

proton.me is more preferable than gmail. Ever since the removed all spam filers, and just inboxed everything - its been a poor experience. And all managing functions in web gmail are lame - so one good practice is connect via thunderbird and use that to mas organize and clean if you never use a desktop client.

But for your personal email, as it were, Protonmail's proton.me is +1

+1 and Fastmail respect your privacy!

+1 for Fastmail -- their iOS and web mail apps are _amazing_ and free, too.

I’ve used Protonmail for years, but lately the encryption is making me seriously consider a switch. You can’t use 3rd party email clients, unless you also install Proton Mail Bridge, which is only available for paid users. And the bridge only works for desktop, so you won’t be able to use 3rd party email clients on your phone.

This is an issue not only with Proton Mail, but with other services in their ecosystem too. For example, you also can’t integrate Proton Calendar with the iOS Calendar app, because of the encryption.

And all of this is for no benefit, because your email won’t be fully E2E encrypted unless your recipient is also using Proton Mail. Most of your recipients will be using Gmail or Outlook, so at the end of the day Google/Microsoft will read your emails anyway.

I’m considering switching to Fastmail, Mailbox.org, or Migadu. If you need to send truly private emails, use PGP encryption.