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> It appears the author wants an email service that is anonymous, free, and let's him access it through a VPN. I don't think that makes sence (how does the prov
by JimDabell 6y ago
> It appears the author wants an email service that is anonymous, free, and let's him access it through a VPN. I don't think that makes sence (how does the provider make money?) and I think it's not what 95% of the public needs.
The author also appears to want an email service that doesn’t store your email or have a spam filter, because they are offended by these parts of FastMail’s privacy policy:
> We process mail sent and received from your account to block spam and fraud.
> We also collect the email content you create, upload, or receive from others
It seems to me that what the author wants does not resemble email, which is why they are so unhappy with so many email providers. Perhaps they would be happier with some form of E2E-encrypted instant messaging. In any case, getting angry at email providers for storing your email seems like a waste of time and energy.
- wolco2 6y agoThey need to self host.
- number6 6y agoDoing this with mailcow on an hetzner vps for 3 years now (semi-personal). Works flawless. Accepted by Gmail and Microsoft365 - and I can pull up the logs and see if a mail was delivered to a mailbox.
- JimDabell 6y agoThis approach would also be unacceptable to the author of the article, as it is not possible to use Hetzner without them storing your personal details. From Hetzner’s privacy policy: > When you register an account with us, we collect and process certain personal data from you as your registration data. For example, we need your name, address information, telephone number, payment information and your email address to process your order. — https://www.hetzner.com/rechtliches/datenschutz https://www.hetzner.com/rechtliches/datenschutz From the article: > Name, phone number, address. You're off to a fast start towards privacy hell, FastMail.
- number6 6y agoGood point. You can still host from your own home - this could work... all depending on the IP score. This is a hit / miss with VPS too though.