Hey all, I've been taking my digital privacy and security much more seriously this year, but the one thing I've been stuck on and feels overwhelming to me is email. So I wanted to know what do you guys use or what practices do you follow? Do you keep a separate email or alias for every single account, or just compartmentalize, like one email address for online shopping, one for business, one personal correspondence, and etc.
What services do you use? Right now I have a free Tutanota and ProtonMail account but haven't decided which one to pay for, if either. ProtonMail makes me iffy with the amount of controversy and debate that has come out of them in recent years even though it comes with a lot of other nice stuff like cloud storage and a vpn. Tutanota I just dislike the fact I can't add it to third party mail apps like Thunderbird, but this might not be a deal breaker. I know there are others, so what do you guys use? I don't need something to protect my emails from the NSA or organizations like that but definitely something more private and secure than gmail. Thanks.
I'm not aware of the controversies regarding ProtonMail, yet they're my main email provider. I have one main email for everything, and an alias for public-facing email. ProtonMail has a free service called SimpleLogin that allows you to create on-the-spot email for a specific service (even comes with a browser extension). I don't have anything else regarding emails, those two services really cover all my bases.
I'd be interested to know which controversies you're referring to though?
Probably referring to these reports:
I think OP is going to have a tough time finding an email provider which won't comply with court orders
There is always the option of setting up your own e-mail server. Have been using “docker mail server” for testing purposes and it’s relatively easy to setup locally.
Haven’t deployed it to a server yet though.
Helm used to be one such service. They hosted the IP address and smtp gateway, but you hosted the actual email server. They had no data to hand over; it was in your home. Unfortunately, their service went offline last year.