self host your email. mailinabox makes it less than half an hour job. plus occasional updates every few months, nothing big. the upside is, you get to control y

self host your email. mailinabox makes it less than half an hour job. plus occasional updates every few months, nothing big. the upside is, you get to control your emails, your server. the bad thing is, if you get a bad IP (which you can have replaced for example at the start from vps provider) or you do something fishy with your email like spam gmail/yahoo/outlook users, you would be banned but other than that it really isn't all that bad. sure i have to "sometimes" ask people to check spam and set it as not spam but that is becoming more and more remote. i do understand the appeal of protonmail and other privacy centric emails but you can do that yourself if you put in the elbow grease. plus you get to learn about a lot of stuff and its a fun exercise. you also do not have to pay through your nose if you want more features/more storage and stuff (well the storage/server depends on your vps in toto but still)