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Re: ProtonMail Hits 5M Accounts

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Post by araxhiel »

krn wrote: post #89
andyroid wrote: post #88

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Would love to hear more about this Gmail customer service I can pay for.

You are not paying for customer service, you are just becoming a paid customer[1]. And then you can compare which email provider treats its paid customers best. For me, the best treatment is when a product is so well thought-through, that I never need to contact anyone about it. [1] https://drive.google.com/settings/storage

But there you are just paying for additional storage, not for email service

Re: ProtonMail Hits 5M Accounts

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Post by krn »

araxhiel wrote: post #111
krn wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are not paying for customer service, you are just becoming a paid customer[1]. And then you can compare which email provider treats its paid customers best. For me, the best treatment is when a product is so well thought-through, that I never need to contact anyone about it. [1] https://drive.google.com/settings/storage

But there you are just paying for additional storage, not for email service

ProtonMail also offers a free inbox with a way to pay for additional storage[1]. Would you also think, that by upgrading your ProtonMail storage you are not paying for email service? The only difference is, that Gmail doesn't limit its features for the free users. It's just a different business model.

[1] https://protonmail.com/pricing

Re: ProtonMail Hits 5M Accounts

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Post by nunobrito »

gammateam wrote: post #52
nunobrito wrote: post #35

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This is false. I've paid Protonmail using bitcoin and that is all that was needed.

how? I just did the $4 plan right now, and it is asking for credit card, paypal. I do see the possibility of a gift code. what am I missing here also the captcha is not a possibility when I last tried over TOR. it was SMS only

I was looking on my dashboard and seems that bitcoin is only available for the yearly payments.

Try switching to yearly and you should now see the option.

This is odd because my first monthly payment was effectively done with bitcoin (I wanted to try it out). This was some 10 months ago. Maybe it got changed in the meanwhile.

Re: ProtonMail Hits 5M Accounts

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Post by nunobrito »

gammateam wrote: post #52
nunobrito wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is false. I've paid Protonmail using bitcoin and that is all that was needed.

how? I just did the $4 plan right now, and it is asking for credit card, paypal. I do see the possibility of a gift code. what am I missing here also the captcha is not a possibility when I last tried over TOR. it was SMS only

Sorry to hear about the TOR restriction.

Re: ProtonMail Hits 5M Accounts

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Post by wink »

vitalique wrote: post #101
wink wrote: post #98

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I don't know, I pay about 10 EUR per month for my mail server, which services N users. So then it's suddenly not peanuts anymore. So yeah, I probably don't fall into the normal category here, a handful of friends & family users and a ton of domains. Protonmail/Fastmail would cost me at least 40 EUR per month, and that's a rough estimate, could easily be 80.

Can you describe your setup please? I've been thinking about moving the family members off Gmail a lot lately.

Sorry for the late reply, but it's a pretty standard (imo) setup with postfix, dovecot, spamassassin, postfixadmin.

I'm planning to redo this soon (been a few years) and I'm as of yet undecided if I just do it manually again (like I do every 3-5 years) or if I'll use some template ala sovereign, mailinabox, mailcow, modoboa.

Also check this thread from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16238937

Re: ProtonMail Hits 5M Accounts

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Post by vitalique »

wink wrote: post #115
vitalique wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you describe your setup please? I've been thinking about moving the family members off Gmail a lot lately.

Sorry for the late reply, but it's a pretty standard (imo) setup with postfix, dovecot, spamassassin, postfixadmin. I'm planning to redo this soon (been a few years) and I'm as of yet undecided if I just do it manually again (like I do every 3-5 years) or if I'll use some template ala sovereign, mailinabox, mailcow, modoboa. Also check this thread from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16238937

Thank you for all the details and suggestions!
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