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Ask HN: German Email Provider for Geeks?

In the light of the recent announcement of Google Apps closing, I started to look for providers. I had a look at the typical ones (fastmail, zoho, protonmail) and recall that in a comment, some 2-3 years ago, someone mentioned a German provider rather directed to geeks. If I remember correctly it is ran by a team of people passionate about mail. Does that ring a bell?

_Microft 5y ago
Does it need to be free? Posteo is said to be quite good, ad-free, anonymous and cheap at only 1€/month. https://posteo.de/ https://posteo.de/ I just looked up how they make paid services and anonymity go together and they have a page about it here: https://posteo.de/en/site/payment https://posteo.de/en/site/payment
- richliss 5y ago
  I've had an account for years with Posteo. It's a great service.
cuu508 5y ago
I don't know which is the one you remember, but check out this list, it may be there: https://european-alternatives.eu/category/email-providers https://european-alternatives.eu/category/email-providers
roneoo 5y ago
systemli maybe?
speedgoose 5y ago
https://tutanota.com/ https://tutanota.com/ ?
Tomte 5y ago
mailbox.org Also https://www.jpberlin.de/ https://www.jpberlin.de/ (a political provider), which is the same company (or a sister company?) to mailbox.org
YXNjaGVyZWdlbgo 5y ago
host your own mail server on https://uberspace.de https://uberspace.de
atmosx 5y ago
If you are using exclusively the web interface (non POP/IMAP) then you can look at these two privacy-oriented: https://protonmail.com/ https://protonmail.com/ https://tutanota.com/ https://tutanota.com/ Proton is located in Switzerland and Tutanota in Germany. If you need POP3/IMAP then: https://posteo.de/en/site/features https://posteo.de/en/site/features I am a rather happy fastmail user, with my custom domain. The service is fine but Australia's privacy record is worsening increasingly fast, so at this point I would avoid fastmail if privacy is a concern.

_Microft 5y ago

Does it need to be free? Posteo is said to be quite good, ad-free, anonymous and cheap at only 1€/month. https://posteo.de/ https://posteo.de/ I just looked up how they make paid services and anonymity go together and they have a page about it here: https://posteo.de/en/site/payment https://posteo.de/en/site/payment

richliss 5y ago
I've had an account for years with Posteo. It's a great service.

cuu508 5y ago

I don't know which is the one you remember, but check out this list, it may be there: https://european-alternatives.eu/category/email-providers https://european-alternatives.eu/category/email-providers

roneoo 5y ago

systemli maybe?

speedgoose 5y ago

https://tutanota.com/ https://tutanota.com/ ?

Tomte 5y ago

mailbox.org Also https://www.jpberlin.de/ https://www.jpberlin.de/ (a political provider), which is the same company (or a sister company?) to mailbox.org

YXNjaGVyZWdlbgo 5y ago

host your own mail server on https://uberspace.de https://uberspace.de

atmosx 5y ago

If you are using exclusively the web interface (non POP/IMAP) then you can look at these two privacy-oriented: https://protonmail.com/ https://protonmail.com/ https://tutanota.com/ https://tutanota.com/ Proton is located in Switzerland and Tutanota in Germany. If you need POP3/IMAP then: https://posteo.de/en/site/features https://posteo.de/en/site/features I am a rather happy fastmail user, with my custom domain. The service is fine but Australia's privacy record is worsening increasingly fast, so at this point I would avoid fastmail if privacy is a concern.