Probably not much help but I purchased a domain to have my own email, I can then have a separate alias for every single login/site, that way I know who leaks my email and just move on to a different alias. I don’t even need to manually create email aliases and can make something up on the fly. All emails then come to a single, private inbox.

Posteo (based in Berlin)

Job. I job for email.

I use Proton but now I think if I’m gonna send mails to a Gmail anyway, there’s no much difference except for the subscription ones not being scanned. And for those sites that I have to enter an email, I use addy.io alias or Firefox relay.

I use mailbox.org because both proton and tuta do not support IMAP, which is generally needed to use a 3rd party client. Mailbox.org is also pretty cheap and is pretty private as far as the non-E2EE providers go. And in terms of E2EE it is going to be used so rarely that is basically doesn’t matter, the type of person that would use tuta/proton would probably be willing to setup PGP with you, and E-mail isn’t a secure communications platform anyways, so you might as well just use Signal, XMPP, briar, etc…

I recently got Stalwart running with Bulwark as the front end to actually send emails. I have Stalwart behind Caddy for https and Stalwart only exposes http because I don’t want to mess with pop and imap. Instead I have it using JMAP, which Bulwark is designed for, because it’s simpler and more secure. Receiving emails works from some basic testing against my personal Gmail account. Sending email was a bit more complicated, but I ended up using SMTP2GO for outgoing mail and it worked in aforementioned testing. Their free tier is more than enough for personal email and I can switch to a different smtp relay in the future if I choose to.

Does anybody actually socially communicate via email anymore?

I realize it’s still in vogue for workplaces, and sometimes companies for support tickets and such, and maybe done doctors, but does anybody actually use it casually to send messages?

I’m dealing with budget issues at the moment but will be moving to a paid service relatively soon, but I think I’m in the majority that uses it almost exclusively only for receipts and getting login codes as a 2FA measure.

Every place I’ve ever bought anytime from that’s attached to that email sends what must be millions of emails to me about different deals and shit, but has anyone ever even opened any of those? Pffffft not below the age of 45 or so I bet.

Email feels obsolete now. It’s a decent backbone (hence why every other account is tied to it), but it’s literally only there to be a common thread in a normie’s tech flow. I haven’t heard of people actually conversing with email since right after I stopped sending messages with mine, about the same time everyone got phones that first of all could send texts (my first phone could not send texts, was just able to save some phone numbers and call those easily. Then visual voicemail started happening, everyone got texting (and then data) plans, and email died off in popularity (at least in my circles) almost instantly.

Mailbox.org is decent. But 1€ per month. I need to switch my stuff to it and pay before the trial ends.

Nobody mentioned Posteo…

i use disroot mail. https://disroot.org/

A professional hosting their own bunch of services on donation basis. But they stopped taking new users.

Tuta (Germany) and Murena Workspace are good mail providers. Murena (France) apart is an excelent all in one substitute for GDrive and other Google services. They also sell Fairphone with own OS (eOS)

Postfix and dovecot on a server stuffed under the stairs.

Mainly ignore it till someone calls me and asks “did you see that email?”

Fastmail 👍 Well worth the bucks imo. Super well thought out UI, private, and they work towards jmap over imap.