HACKER Q&A
📣 BrandoElFollito

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?


  👤 cuu508 Accepted Answer ✓
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

👤 _Microft
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/

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


👤 atmosx
If you are using exclusively the web interface (non POP/IMAP) then you can look at these two privacy-oriented:

https://protonmail.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

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.


👤 speedgoose

👤 Tomte
mailbox.org

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


👤 roneoo
systemli maybe?

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