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Comment by NoboruWataya

16 hours ago

I have been using mailbox.org for a few years and no complaints. I don't think the web UI is amazing but I use it via Thunderbird so it doesn't affect me.

If you use your own email client and your own domain name, you don't really need to worry about UI with email providers at all (as long as your provider supports those features). And your own domain name makes it easy to move around in future if you need to.

I don't really have any plans to move away from mailbox.org, though I just saw the post about Thunderbird offering an email service in the future. That might actually prompt me to move as I'd like to support the makers of a FOSS email client I've been happily using for years.

It doesn't sound like they do on-disk encryption like ProtonMail. Is that right?

  • Mailbox doesn’t support it, but on mailbox you can use your IMAP app with Proton not.

    And on mailbox you can easily send and receive PGP encrypted mail on mailbox.org. They provide a page for key import, allowing you to send encrypted emails like regular mail when needed.

    It’s your choice, if you always want to use proton mail app everywhere you can use proton.