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What is your goal to migrate way from Google. Is it the privacy or the lock in? If it's the privacy. then go with Protonmail. ProtonMail has some silly/marketi
by kureikain 5y ago
What is your goal to migrate way from Google. Is it the privacy or the lock in?
If it's the privacy. then go with Protonmail. ProtonMail has some silly/marketing claim like "encryption" email which I think it just a marketing term. But they do has some nice encryption features intgrate nighly on their web app such as gpp and they are also maintain https://openpgpjs.org/ https://openpgpjs.org/
So I suggest to go with ProtonMail if you are more about privacy.
If you are more about vendor lock in, then you have to go with a provider that allow you to export data easiser. fastmail has JMAP for that.
On the side note, this is the reason I have been working on an email forwarding service[1] which has a REST API to export email out. You can literally `curl https://api.hanami.run/v1/mails https://api.hanami.run/v1/mails` to get email in JSON format.
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[1] https://hanami.run https://hanami.run
- tofukid 5y agoProtonmail emails are end-to-end encrypted such that the staff can’t just login to the database and read your email. Sure, maybe it’s not going to protect you from the NSA, but it’s a lot better than leaving everyone’s emails unencrypted at rest for any admin to access.
- Vlad81b 5y agoAnd you send over insecure protocol like SMTP? Yes, it encrypt on server but does not encrypt sending and recv - email protocol does not work - that why gmail have green/red alert on income email/
- tofukid 5y agoYes, SMTP is insecure. Protonmail emails are end-to-end encrypted at rest. So server admins or whoever can’t just look at all your emails whenever they want, potentially years after they’ve been received. Contrast that with Fastmail, Gmail, or other providers. At any moment someone who works there can look at customer emails. I prefer my emails encrypted at rest.