what email service do you use?

I'm trying to move away from the prying eyes and services that make money off of my data. currently I'm using gmail but I'm looking at alternatives...

- protonmail is a little spendy for my blood..

- tutanota is affordable, but it only lets you send encrypted emails. if you try to send an email to someone who is not using tutanota, it requires a password to be set for the email, if memory serves me correctly. this isn't really feasible as I'd bet 99% of my contacts do not use said service..

- mailfence is also affordable and doesn't suffer from the above mentioned issues with unencrypted emails. it also integrates in with 3rd party apps to fetch your emails....if I go with this service, I'd likely connect to it using thunderbird on my desktop and fair email on my android phone.

what's everyone using?

fastmail, since '04 I think. Quite satisfied. I'm currently paying $80/2-years, though they don't mention the 2-year rate on their pricing page so maybe I'm being grandfathered?

I've never even heard of the services you mention, Andrew.  While your reasons for switching are great, I think the average person just wants something that works smoothly.  The other thing is that e-mail services such as G-mail and/or Apple's Mail just make it that much easier to have one stay tied to a particular ecosystem which gets back to your noting the monetizing of a person's information.

You have me curious now and I shall be watching this thread to see what information is out there.

Great question Andrew.
I would love to have an alternative to gmail.
I’m not smart enough to find a good one.
Looking forward to the responses.
I did find this one…

Kolab Now

I'm trying to move away from the prying eyes and services that make money off of my data.  currently I'm using gmail but I'm looking at alternatives...

- protonmail is a little spendy for my blood..

- tutanota is affordable, but it only lets you send encrypted emails.  if you try to send an email to someone who is not using tutanota, it requires a password to be set for the email, if memory serves me correctly.  this isn't really feasible as I'd bet 99% of my contacts do not use said service..

- mailfence is also affordable and doesn't suffer from the above mentioned issues with unencrypted emails.  it also integrates in with 3rd party apps to fetch your emails....if I go with this service, I'd likely connect to it using thunderbird on my desktop and fair email on my android phone.

what's everyone using?

Protonmail is excellent... and its free (unless you need a bunch of cloud storage or custom features)

https://www.privacytools.io/#email

I'm trying to move away from the prying eyes and services that make money off of my data.  currently I'm using gmail but I'm looking at alternatives...

- protonmail is a little spendy for my blood..

- tutanota is affordable, but it only lets you send encrypted emails.  if you try to send an email to someone who is not using tutanota, it requires a password to be set for the email, if memory serves me correctly.  this isn't really feasible as I'd bet 99% of my contacts do not use said service..

- mailfence is also affordable and doesn't suffer from the above mentioned issues with unencrypted emails.  it also integrates in with 3rd party apps to fetch your emails....if I go with this service, I'd likely connect to it using thunderbird on my desktop and fair email on my android phone.

what's everyone using?

Protonmail is excellent... and its free (unless you need a bunch of cloud storage or custom features)

protonmail doesn't encrypt some stuff, like subject lines, which I find annoying. that said, they're very popular.

is the calendar included in their free tier?

I'm trying to move away from the prying eyes and services that make money off of my data.  currently I'm using gmail but I'm looking at alternatives...

- protonmail is a little spendy for my blood..

- tutanota is affordable, but it only lets you send encrypted emails.  if you try to send an email to someone who is not using tutanota, it requires a password to be set for the email, if memory serves me correctly.  this isn't really feasible as I'd bet 99% of my contacts do not use said service..

- mailfence is also affordable and doesn't suffer from the above mentioned issues with unencrypted emails.  it also integrates in with 3rd party apps to fetch your emails....if I go with this service, I'd likely connect to it using thunderbird on my desktop and fair email on my android phone.

what's everyone using?

Protonmail is excellent... and its free (unless you need a bunch of cloud storage or custom features)

protonmail doesn't encrypt some stuff, like subject lines, which I find annoying.  that said, they're very popular.

is the calendar included in their free tier?

Yes - my free version does include the Calendar

I have my own domain name - northernelectric.ca - (which I pay for) and the hosting service (stormweb.ca) provides email as part of the package.
It's good to be king (of one's own email service).

I also use an address that's provided by my ISP which, again, is a paid service.

So I guess the trick is not to use a free email service.

I'm trying to move away from the prying eyes and services that make money off of my data.  currently I'm using gmail but I'm looking at alternatives...

Who is your ISP?