Email Provider

[Madchatthew]

Well, unfortunately, I think I am going to have to revert back to using gmail again. I am unable to afford Proton Mail suite unfortunately. I had thought about maybe using my own email server, but if I ever need to shut that down then that won’t be a good option. I don’t plan on it, but things change. So it would be nice to get a good free one that is secure.

If anyone has any good suggestions, please let me know. I’m not sure what I should do. I am going to go with Bitwarden, and can do the 10 dollars a year for the premium, which it will be nice to have an authenticator built into that program.

So I will need to figure out the email and will probably go back to nordvpn for that part of it. If i remember right, it was fairly cheap per year.

[phenomlab]

@Madchatthew The main issue (for me personally) here is that whilst Gmail is pretty secure, providers such as (Gmail, Outlook or Yahoo) will scan or track your emails. Proton is not cheap, which is what puts me off using it to be honest.

Have you considered using standard email but encrypting it with something like PGP?

[Madchatthew]

@phenomlab said in Email Provider:

providers such as (Gmail, Outlook or Yahoo) will scan or track your emails.

This is one of the reasons I would like to get away from them in regard to email. Probably the main reason. Not that I have anything to hide, it is just, my communications is none of their business.

@phenomlab said in Email Provider:

Proton is not cheap, which is what puts me off using it to be honest.

Have you considered using standard email but encrypting it with something like PGP?

Yeah, that is why I will need to stop using Proton. They do have a free tier but you have to make sure you clean our your emails and download emails you want to keep because the storage isn’t very much.

When you say standard, do you mean running email off of my own server and then implementing PGP?

[phenomlab]

@Madchatthew said in Email Provider:

When you say standard, do you mean running email off of my own server and then implementing PGP?

Yes and no. The email doesn’t need to be on your server, but you’d need an email client that supports PGP (for example)

For example, Thunderbird has OpenPGP support

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/openpgp-thunderbird-howto-and-faq

[Madchatthew]

@phenomlab So would this mean if I accessed my gmail email through the thunderbird client that when I send and receive email that thunderbird would encrypt it so gmail couldn’t read it?

Now that I think about that, the mail still goes through their servers so I would think they would be able to read it on their end?

[phenomlab]

@Madchatthew No, only the end recipient with the decryption key would be able to read an encrypted message

This is a useful read

https://www.fortinet.com/uk/resources/cyberglossary/pgp-encryption

[Madchatthew]

It seems as though I feel like I should know this stuff already. I am going to chalk it up to a monday

[phenomlab]

@Madchatthew I’ve been using that excuse for years, and it always works! That, or lack of coffee…

[Madchatthew]

@phenomlab lol it is a great excuse and sometimes a combination of both haha