A while ago, when one of the Proton CEOs made some questionable statements, I terminated my Proton subscription. I liked Proton, having all the services I need in one place was nice and I wasn’t sure whether I’d actually leave and had a year already paid left.
I thought about at least leaving my mail there, but 4-5€ / month just for mail isn’t worth it in my opinion. And I’m very pissed that mail-forwarding and IMAP are premium features, something I probably should’ve found out way earlier. They want to lock me in, which is a dealbreaker for me.
So with that in mind, does someone know a fitting alternative? I’d of course still prefer a privacy-focused service and would be fine paying <= 2€.
€: Bonuspoints if there are no “special discounts” (discounts for commiting to a longer subscription are fine, what i mean is special deals for new customers or black friday deals, stuff like that)
€€: Going to give mailbox a shot, thanks everyone!
Mail: mailbox.org or systemli (if you know a user who can invite you)
Calendar: EteSync with DavX5 somehow, needs to be hosted somewhere, I dont know a provider
Notes: no idea, I personally use Syncthing with local notes, but the lack of symlinking on android makes this subpar to “sharing notes with others” on cloud connected notes
Drive: Nextcloud, NFS share, syncthing
VPN: AirVPN, Mullvad, maybe others like incognet
Mailbox also provides calendar and Contacts(?). There is also video conferencing and some storage for some more coins.
Yes but that is not E2EE so you need to fully trust them, other than their “encrypted mailbox” where you still need to trust them, but in theory even if the cops want access to the data, they only get the persistent data which is always encrypted (not the email headers and no past emails)
They should provide Etesync, lets write them