Ask KN: What email service should I choose to use?

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Post by pierreneter » Wed, Jun 26, 2019, 2:39 AM UTC

Hello,

I forgot my password at Google mail. They do not allow me to reset. This is an error of the password recovery system, but they didn't listen to me. I want to switch to another mail service provider. Please advise me to choose one. I tried creating my own mail server with DigitalOcean but they didn't open port 25 for me, so I immediately deleted the droplet. I'm really confused. The email has never been so complicated.

Thank you, guys.

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Post by halcyonl » Wed, Jun 26, 2019, 2:41 AM UTC

Sad story :(

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Post by auslegung » Wed, Jun 26, 2019, 3:07 AM UTC

I've in the process of switching from gmail to mailfence. What I like about mailfence is it has email, contacts, calendar, and cloud storage, plus it's secure. I'm only beginning the process so I can't yet say they're great, but I'd check them out. Or protonmail, fastmail, and others are good, too.

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Post by pierreneter » Wed, Jun 26, 2019, 3:39 AM UTC

Everyone, do you know which server provider allows opening port 25?

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Post by qndev » Wed, Jun 26, 2019, 4:58 AM UTC

Best Free Email Services of 2019 https://www.toptenreviews.com/best-free-email-services

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Post by quickthrower2 » Wed, Jun 26, 2019, 7:09 AM UTC

I’m preparing for what happened to you. Basically:

1. Get your own domain. 2. Get a half decent provider (zoho has a free plan, I use them they see quite good)

Keep a zero inbox by deleting and downloading emails.

If you get locked out again just change your DNS. Just make sure you don’t get locked out of the domain name!

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Post by dngray » Wed, Jun 26, 2019, 9:25 AM UTC

I would say one of these providers:

* https://www.privacytools.io/providers/email/

* https://web.archive.org/web/20190619003906/https://www.priva...

Ultimately free without encouragement to pay is not good as it will involve the platform monetizing by selling your data in some way.

Should also note at the moment, not all providers are equal, for example posteo.de doesn't allow you to use your own domain whereas some of the others do. Protonmail doesn't currently have calendars although that's coming soon https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/wiki/dev-status Tutanota does not allow for IMAP/SMTP (you must use a browser or their client).

There's also this issue where privacytools.io plan to expand the information about each provider. https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/603...

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Post by swtrs » Wed, Jun 26, 2019, 5:40 PM UTC

dngray wrote: post #7

I would say one of these providers: * https://www.privacytools.io/providers/email/ * https://web.archive.org/web/20190619003906/https://www.priva... Ultimately free without encouragement to pay is not good as it will involve the platform monetizing by selling your data in some way. Should also note at the moment, not all providers are equal, for example posteo.de doesn't allow you to use your own domain whereas some…

I quite like Fastmail. I switched from Gmail five years ago and have had no complaints.

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Post by the_common_man » Thu, Jun 27, 2019, 2:12 PM UTC

For email, you can use Cloudron from the DO marketplace.

DO opens up port 25 by raising a support ticket.

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Post by zhte415 » Thu, Jun 27, 2019, 4:13 PM UTC

Google messed up my email account when they were changing something in Google for Domains (this was a free Google for Domains account, when those were free, and a personal domain, I was an earlyish adopter) and were merging Google For Domain and GMail accounts. There was no support on being locked from the account. Fortunately, having bounced around hotmail etc two decades ago, I had the foresight to register my own personal domain name, and had a backup of mails.

Have your own domain name.

Don't use your registrar to host your email, or website (interesting and wise advice from Dreamhost, a similar amount of time ago).

Running a mailserver is a pain, to be frank, unless you're in it to learn. A paid 3rd party with an SLA (Service Level Agreement) is a good option, and perhaps a privacy slant too. Perhaps Protonmail?