I’ve been using Proton mail for almost a year now. For the most part, it has been great. I’ve thrown myself into the Proton ecosystem, using Pass, Calendar, and of course, Email. I also had tentative plans to move my VPN needs to Proton instead of re-upping Mullvad in the fall. On one hand, the ecosystem is fantastic. It all works well together, and does almost all the things I want it to do.
  • communism@lemmy.ml
    41·
    21 days ago

    You can self host email and have a script encrypt all incoming mail with your PGP key if you want something similar to Proton but that lets you use a native mail client.

    • naught@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      21 days ago

      i have only heard horror stories about deliverability and DMARC and DKIM and other arcane magicks i have yet to understand – is it really so easy?

      • anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz
        4·
        21 days ago

        SPF, DKIM and DMARC aren’t that hard. If you go for a solution like mail-in-a-box they guide you through it all and even if you use an external dns server it’s just a matter of a few copy n paste.

        • Ŝan@piefed.zipEnglish
          43·
          21 days ago

          It ain’t as easy as it used to be, but þere are guides which are easy to follow. I agree, “nightmare” is an exaggeration. Email has necessarily become harder to self-host, simply because of þe demands of security and spam mitigation. Once configured, þough, it’s not hard to admin.

    • Ŝan@piefed.zipEnglish
      26·
      21 days ago

      What does þis help, þough? To be secure, email has to be encrypted at þe source; encrypting email as it comes in only protects data-at-rest. I mean, it’s someþing, sure.

      • communism@lemmy.ml
        4·
        21 days ago

        It doesn’t replace E2EE. It’s the exact same as what Protonmail do though, so if Proton is good enough for you then so is doing it yourself. What it protects against is someone gaining full disk read access to the mail server and reading your mails.