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I am trying to choose an email provider, to use with my identifying accounts (like banks, gov ids, etc.). I feel that emails for such cases do not need to be end-to-end encrypted, since most information would already be present with banks, gov, etc.

So I was looking at non-E2EE emails - Mailbox and Posteo.

  • Between Posteo and Mailbox - which one do you use / is better in terms of privacy?

I noticed that both of these are hosted in Germany. With rise in popularity of right wing party, a bunch of stuff around chat control and verification, and even normal German government support for Israel, I was wondering whether I should look for other solutions hosted elsewhere. Or use Proton / Tuta instead?

Also, I am not sure if any of these companies support right-wing or Israel themselves?

Do you have any suggestions regarding this?

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I moved from Proton to Mailbox.org a few days ago. Normal IMAP was one of the reasons. Another was feeling of being slowly locked in a walled garden. Plus, it's more expensive.

Anyway, with Mailbox.org it's also possible to encrypt your whole inbox with OpenPGP. Maybe it's not on the same level like Proton, but it uses an open standard.

https://kb.mailbox.org/en/private/encryption/your-encrypted-mailbox/