Step 1, get a custom domain so you can migrate providers easily. It costs like 6€ a year, definitely worth it. Step 2, Fastmail, Protonmail M$, ... will be hap

Step 1, get a custom domain so you can migrate providers easily. It costs like 6€ a year, definitely worth it. Step 2, Fastmail, Protonmail M$, ... will be happy to offer you email for few € a month. If you'd desperately need to save money on that, there is Czech provider Seznam.cz that offers email on custom domain for free. Only issue is that the registration is in Czech, but Google Translate your friend: https://emailprofi.seznam.cz/login https://emailprofi.seznam.cz/login It's like a biggest local internet company, not totally random provider, so should not just steal data or disappear right away and works reasonably.