Before you compare EU email providers, get your own domain. It is the single change that lets you switch providers later without redoing the painful migration.
I’m still being lazy about actually making the jump myself but I’d probably go with proton. They’re not perfect and already showing signs they might enshittify in the future but for now it’s still miles ahead of giving all the data to the Americans. In September when I’m back from holidays…
My main issue with proton is the forced encryption and so the lack of IMAP. The mails I receive are not sensitive, and I much prefer to use my own client rather than being forced to use theirs
I’ve used round cube about 7 years ago, but it was a very poor experience in comparison with gmail back then. Gmail hasn’t really changed anything since, except that it got less reliable, I can only hope that there now are better open source web mail clients; there can’t be worse
I’m addicted to the Gmail webmail, does anyone know a webmail that can be similar?
Maybe roundcube with a mess of hundreds of plugins?
Crossbox is nice but the price is unaffordable (pricing designed for a hosting with thousands of users)
I’m still being lazy about actually making the jump myself but I’d probably go with proton. They’re not perfect and already showing signs they might enshittify in the future but for now it’s still miles ahead of giving all the data to the Americans. In September when I’m back from holidays…
My main issue with proton is the forced encryption and so the lack of IMAP. The mails I receive are not sensitive, and I much prefer to use my own client rather than being forced to use theirs
I’ve used round cube about 7 years ago, but it was a very poor experience in comparison with gmail back then. Gmail hasn’t really changed anything since, except that it got less reliable, I can only hope that there now are better open source web mail clients; there can’t be worse