The Helm email server — funded by future YC CEO Garry Tan’s VC firm, but I bought one before he returned – is a really great compromise between privacy and conv

The Helm email server — funded by future YC CEO Garry Tan’s VC firm, but I bought one before he returned – is a really great compromise between privacy and convenience. The IP block is managed by the Helm co., they tunnel connections and sell you the (tiny, silent) server and software. Each Helm server generates its own TLS cert, so the tunneling does not violate your privacy (unless it was delivered without TLS, in which case your privacy already vanished upstream). The only delivery issues I hit are sometimes with Outlook/Microsoft managed domains. It’s been at least a year since I had that issue. When I first bought one someone on gmail had to move a message of mine out of spam, but it’s been fine since. Last I checked their infra is hosted on AWS but apparently they have some screening technique for getting clean IPs.