Privacy

Seconding mailbox. It's a nice no bullshit provider so far.

E2E encryption is a bit of a distraction on email. You're not emailing people on the same provider most of the time, and if you actually need privacy just use a purpose built communication system. With that in mind, it just comes down to something that is in a jurisdiction that you're ok with, and has values you care about.

While you're at it I recommend getting a custom domain if you haven't. It's not much extra work, and will make it easier to switch in the future.

you guys have created a new bigtech company

After looking into it quite a bit myself, the ones that seem most promising are Mailbox, Posteo, Tuta and Fastmail. I've tried all of them except for Mailbox and they're all pretty solid options.

Each have their selling points, so I would recommend taking a quick look at all of them before deciding. Posteo for example is really cheap unless you need loads of extra aliases and storage, but does not support custom domains. Tuta does not support third party clients. Fastmail is kinda expensive, but gives you more storage than the others and some extra features. Mailbox seems really similar to Posteo to me in a lot of ways, but has more features in their more expensive plans.

Disroot

Posteo

Ive been pretty happily using tuta for email and bitwarden for passwords.

As best I know nothing has happened to make me regret going with tuta, which is nice. It just handles my email

Migrated to Tutamail a year back when Proton announced their attention to gargle MAGA balls. No complaints.

I'm thinking of how to leave proton ecosystem.

And luckily this time I'm not using as much features as I was with Google.

For the password vault, I will try this : https://www.aliasvault.com/

Mail and Drive : https://www.mailo.com/ 1,5€/month with 20 Go of storage.

I was thinking to get a domain name and use it with mailo.

For the mail alias, maybe this one. It's free and unlimited : https://duckduckgo.com/email

For the VPN, I'm still weighing if I will pay a subscription.

And for the rest, I already have something : Photo > Immich selfhosted Calendar/Contact > radicale selfhosted Authenticator > Aegis

Kagi Mail is coming soon.

Wonder how long these alternatives will last for people who aren't happy with this current state of affairs...

I've used fastmail since I de-googled during lockdown.

Currently working on that too. I mainly grieve over their mail and password management services. Bitwarden would be a solid ProtonPass replacement but I‘m considering hosting Vaultwarden on my tailnet for more independence from cloud storage.

E2E encrypted mail is very annoying because no one else seems to offer a bridge like proton so I‘m considering using a classic provider with a privacy commitment and just archiving locally to keep the bulk of my mails to myself. Mailbox, Tuta and others do offer similar mail experiences though.

I’m testing Infomaniak.

https://www.infomaniak.com/

Swiss tech company that seems to be privacy conscious.

I created Port87. It’s awesome for keeping your email organized, and it’s been really good at preventing spam. Recently, one of my labels started getting spammed, so I got to use the block feature for the first time. :) The weird thing is it was an old label I didn’t use anymore.

I am using Zoho for serious stuff that needs (mail server) redundancy and for everything else I am self-hosting Postfix + Dovecot + Roundcube.