Looking for a cheap and reputable inbox from a company with a decent privacy policy. Don’t mind paying, but it’s gotta be less than 30 USD a year; I do not need anything but the ability to send and receive emails for accounts and correspondence.
Posteo is affordable and, at least to my liking, private enough.
I have been extremely satisfied with Posteo, and it’s so affordable too!
I actually have an alias specificay for my fediverse/matrix shenanigans :3
Proton’s free tier gives you 1 GB storage, 25 MB attachments,50 emails per hour, 150 per day. Plenty for most personal uses.
Mailbox.org is good. Decent pricing and features. Been using it for two years
I’ve also used mailbox.org for a couple years and have found it works great for me. I’m just on their lowest pricing tier and it has all the features I need including aliases.
I also find that the domain ‘mailbox.org’ sounds super normal and doesn’t raise eyebrows when I have to say it out loud to a customer service person or whatever.
For less than $30/year, you could buy your own domain and use it with any number of reliable paid email providers giving you a level of control that isn’t possible with the usual suspects. You don’t need a vps or have to host anything yourself if you don’t want to.
I’ve used Purelymail for a few years and have no issues adding them to the recommendations from others here.
One thing to consider is whether you want IMAP to be able to set up your preferred clients instead of using the providers webmail/apps.
Migadu at 19USD/year is pretty good. I’ve had my domain with them for two years and it works really good.
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Runbox works well for me.
Happy with them too. Standards compliant (use a real mail client). Secondary accounts are ultra cheap if you add family and such.
Mailo, 1€/20GB.
