Good time to switch to a European mail provider Tuta with their 62% discount.
Tuta: Turn ON privacy for free with secure emails, calendars & contacts | Tuta
Tuta is a end-to-end-encryption mail and calendar provider. They recently wrote a good blog-post about changing to european services.
You probably don't need that legendary plan though. You can get the regular plan for the same price later, it offers more than enough for a regular user. As of now, try it for free. Fuck FOMO.
lol I was literally FOMOing on this, and it's so true that I don't even need the legendary plan. Thank you for bringing me back to reality.
Sigh, I have just one problem with Tuta - why such a stupid, stupid name?! I can already imagine myself on the phone saying "yes, T. U. T. A. Tuta dot com"
I sadly agree. It is an odd choice for a name. Tutanota wasn't much better either, their former name. Apparently "tuta" means secure in Latin. However as I am using my own custom domain it doesn't bother me very much personally as it's not a part of my digital identity 😅
Oh! I didn't know it has a latin origin. Then I guess it makes sense but still ...
I got a question about custom domains for email. I know getting trust if you host your own email server is a difficult thing to do. When you use a custom domain on for example tuta, are you piggy backing off of their trust as a email server, or do you run into the same issue?
It really is. Could've been worse, like having some "I love Tuta" stickers. smh
TIL: they used to be called Tutanota. The word “Tuta” comes from Latin, which roughly translates into “Safe”. This acts as a nice successor to what “Tutanota” meant in Latin, which was “Secure Note”.
Don't get me started! In Romanian 'tuta' is a designation for a very stupid woman! 🤷♂️
How about some pcloud in these trying times?
I don't know if keemailme is better but that's another option from them.
Yeah good point. If tuta is a big throw off they do offer:
coolName@keemail[.]me
Tuta kept giving me ads despite being a premium user and when I finally decided to leave they made it impossible to cancel. I had to delete my account to get out of the bind.
Are you referring to their newsletter? I just set a spam filtering rule to automatically discard those. Also can you elaborate more on it being hard to cancel your subscription? I can do it very easily.
I do have my own list of complaints about Tuta, but so far they are the best I've found
That's not the only one, but I refuse workarounds on services I pay for out of principle.
Oh wow
Thanks so much that’s a great discount.
It’s fun to see how people rage over corporations who sell their data and let people use their products for free. And when you want to use more private products, they complain about how they need to pay for it.
I have been using Tuta for a couple of years now, when I decided to not use Google anymore and I think Tuta is worth the money.
You need to use Tuta’s application because they can’t provide their security with a other applications.
Even Gmail allows to use the email client of your choice, going for an email provider that force you to use their app is a bummer
What SSO are you expecting? Google? Microsoft? GitHub? You see the problem here?
The missing passkey is certainly something they can work on but this is definitely not a critical feature
I have been using Tuta since the start of the year when I decided it was time to remove myself from Big Tech as much as I can. Really highly recommend them!
This has always been under good advisement, for privacy.
My Proton account still runs til November (it's cancelled) this year, would be nice to subscribe to Tuta and activate it starting October so I cpuld move stuff. Guess I have to hope for other deals in the future
Did they ever say if they will end the old 1EUR/month premium plan? I've had it for years now and when I clicked the GIF to look at what the legendary plan price was, it warned me my current plan doesn't exist anymore
Also consider KolabNow
I really dislike Tuta for their refusal to support SMTP/IMAP and PGP, let alone CalDAV or CardDAV. Posteo's approach is way better.
Is this not a deal breaker for, like, everyone?
Web apps.
For reference I work for a competing mail provider and the majority of our users don't use SMTP or IMAP, instead exclusively using the web app.
Personally never had to use either protocol, what's your use case? - genuinely curios.
Posteo has no custom domain support, deal breaker for me. As far as I understand they don't support IMAP in order to keep their encryption working, and I believe others like Proton do the same thing. Since their webapp is good and they even have an official client on Fdroid, I don't think it's a big deal
For people who want custom domain support, as well as SMTP/IMAP, but still euro-based, Nubo may be more what you're looking for if you're OK with dealing with a newer company.
What do you use smtp/imap for?
Email apps.