Are there any private email services

  • Platform27@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Tutanota and Proton are often recommended services. I personally prefer Tutanota, and their encryption. Though, Proton has a nice suite of services, that is worth looking into. Namely their VPN and Drive…

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      1 year ago

      what caused me to lean more towards tuta was their encryption also encrypts the email subject line, and not just the body. I read PGP doesn’t allow for that

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        1 year ago

        Tutanota also encrypts email folder and labels names. Last time I checked, Proton does not.

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          I know contacts are encrypted, but I wasn’t aware tuta implemented email labels yet, and all that came up from the search was a post from the company on reddit 6 months ago stating it was planned for the future, at https://web.archive.org/web/20230114104535/https://old.reddit.com/r/tutanota/comments/10aumyg/question_on_features_in_provided/ .

          And encrypted folder names sounds believable, but I can’t find a link definitely stating encryption for that, specifically. If you could shoot me a link about it, I’d love to know it’s true before I start stating that to others. Don’t get me wrong, I really like how privacy-focused tuta is, but I jumped into a paid account knowing their frontend functionality is pretty barebones; something I was fine with supporting while they built it up, since the backend privacy focus and it being open source were the main selling points to me.

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            Yes, that’s my bad, with Labels. I never really use them, and wrote it without thinking. I do not have a source for my folder claim. I was told this several years ago, by support, when I was enquiring about their service, for business use. It was one of my many questions. While the end user seems their folder name, Tutanota sees a random identifier.