Disclaimer: New to lemmy and still figuring it out. Sorry if I did everything wrong, please be gentle.

Does anyone have any recommendations for an email app that doesn’t data mine or whatever. I’m in the process of transitioning to the fediverse and purging shitty, morally dubious companies from my life. Currently weening off Google. I have a duckduckgo email relay, but I want to get Google completely off my phone.

    • Toes♀@ani.social
      2·
      6 hours ago

      +1 for Thunderbird. I’ve deployed it in enterprise environments too.

      If you’d rather something more integrated into the OS (non-windows). Kmail and Apple mail work reasonably well.

  • zonnewin@feddit.nlEnglish
    4·
    6 hours ago

    I like Proton. It’s secure, with end-to-end encryption. It is web-based, just like Google, so accessible anywhere. It has an eye-pleasing design. And it’s based in Europe.

    • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
      21·
      3 hours ago

      • Proton is not an Email app but mainly an email provider that locks you into its own app.

      • Proton does not provide e2e encrypted email outside its own environment (so any mail within proton will be encrypted but not outside - and it’s far harder to do the later due to point one)

      • Proton is heavily run by US citizens living in the US - and therefore to some extend fall under the homeland security act and similar laws, including pressure by the current administration.

      • Proton claims to be based on Swiss privacy laws. One should be aware that Swiss data protection laws are amongst the weakest in Europe, that service providers can (and mostly are) forced to monitor cross border traffic and that Swiss intelligence services have a long history of unlawful overreach and extremely close cooperation with US services. To what extend Proton is affected by this is unclear, unlike other Swiss based service providers they refuse to comment on this(and they would be allowed to comment, don’t get me wrong)

      Just to be aware. I know there are a lot of fans of proton on Lemmy,but there are far better services available nowadays. If the Swiss privacy law does not bother you Infomaniak is an option, alternativly mailbox.org is an option within the GDPR sphere. (Can be bad or good depending on your own situation)

      Neither of them is an app, nevertheless,but they work with any major app,e.g. thunderbird.

      • darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        3·
        2 hours ago

        Proton does not provide e2e encrypted email outside its own environment (so any mail within proton will be encrypted but not outside - and it’s far harder to do the later due to point one)

        This is not quite accurate, Proton quite nicely exchanges PGP encrypted mail with people who have PGP but not Proton.