Anyone use Proton email service from the USA?

[jurko]

Office 365 costs a few bucks, but it's good. Another option.

$70 per year it's not a few bucks and is waist of money for someone who uses office apps infrequently.
They're better off to use the apps. in G Drive which is free.
But if you're a power user and is proficient in VB programing language to manipulate data and automate tasks within the office apps then $70 bucks is bargain.
Another minus I see with 365 that it is cloud based service and if you decide to cancel subscription you might loose all the data.

 

[OVERKILL]

$70 per year it's not a few bucks and is waist of money for someone who uses office apps infrequently.
They're better off to use the apps. in G Drive which is free.
But if you're a power user and is proficient in VB programing language to manipulate data and automate tasks within the office apps then $70 bucks is bargain.
Another minus I see with 365 that it is cloud based service and if you decide to cancel subscription you might loose all the data.

Depends on your perspective of course. $70 is like 10 Starbucks coffees (venti white mocha) or a few minutes of work. Google's privacy (snooping, see the recent case about the guy getting flagged for child porn when he sent his doctor a pic of his kid) raises some concerns, while Microsoft's free service, outlook.com, is more limited.

Everyone's situation is different, so I figured it was worth pointing out as an option.

 

[simple_gifts]

I had to laugh at this because Proton can be obtained by anyone, anywhere completely anonymously. It's the perfect platform for... scammers. Not saying it doesn't have benefits. Google does do geographic and other checks when someone goes to create an account.

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You are confusing the service with unscrupulous people using the service.

 

[Mainia]

I finally received my email by using my iCloud email and nothing was blocked……yet. I am going to go with Proton mails premium for $10 a year. As I need 3 emails for banking/important, common main, then junk site use. I wI’ll not use Apple icloud/mail, Googles mail apps as they are cancel thugs if you don’t think like they do. It was good to see so many people use Proton with no issues, thanks for the reply’s.

 

[RazorsEdge]

I use Proton email with no issues.

 

[Escape08]

I have it. I don't give my Proton email and 2 other emails (Hotmail & GMail) to retail stores or else it will bombarded with junk emails. I have a yahoo account which I gave to retail stores, online, etc. and such for non-personal emails and that account is bombarded with junk emails.

 

[henni]

We (family) use the commercial version (small business account, domain mx records maintained by google) of gmail.
The advantage is that we get 4 terabytes of shared storage across the domain (Docs, Drive, Mail, Files, etc etc) and full suite of productivity tools and we use our own domain(s) as the email address (the part after @ sign) so outside it does not look like a gmail account.
Security is also boosted with many useful reporting tools.

Currently we pay $6 / month for this.

 

[Silver]

?

You are confusing the service with unscrupulous people using the service.

Incorrect.

I countered an anecdotal example with an anecdotal example.

 

[alarmguy]

I have it. I don't give my Proton email and 2 other emails (Hotmail & GMail) to retail stores or else it will bombarded with junk emails. I have a yahoo account which I gave to retail stores, online, etc. and such for non-personal emails and that account is bombarded with junk emails.

Yes, I have many email accounts, one is for general non important stuff which will get spammed with garbage over time.

 

[Y_K]

On a positive side G has dedicated security team, but they are snooping of course. With Proton, read the fine print (I am not up to date), they used to have slightly different policies for .com and .ch domains. On top of the fact that they were hacked a few years ago and had to pay ransom. And there is no guarantee they are not yet another Swiss front for a US threeletter agency. There is no guarantee for anything from anybody on the web...
I use a commercial service and pay a few bux a month for developers' salaries and corp profits with pleasure. Never had a hickup

 

[admzn]

$70 per year it's not a few bucks and is waist of money for someone who uses office apps infrequently.
They're better off to use the apps. in G Drive which is free.
But if you're a power user and is proficient in VB programing language to manipulate data and automate tasks within the office apps then $70 bucks is bargain.
Another minus I see with 365 that it is cloud based service and if you decide to cancel subscription you might loose all the data.

If you use the free version of google anything, they are constantly scanning and selling your metadata for advertising. Personally I refuse to use any service that does that so blatantly (facebook, etc).

Just remember if the product is free, you are the product.

Protonmail is great, lots of friends use it. Personally I host my own mail server (in the datacentre at work) but realize it's not for everyone lol.

 

[uc50ic4more]

Personally I host my own mail server (in the datacentre at work) but realize it's not for everyone lol.

Do you/ your workplace have an IP range that was able to get whitelisted by the major email players? I know sometimes they'll blacklist an entire range - which might encompass the one IP you're using legitimately - because some knuckleheads are spamming from another address(es) within that range.

Even the most die-hard self-hosters I know have given up on self-hosting email; but it seems like you might have a distinct advantage here with the ability to self-host from a data centre.

I have an account with MXroute and host my "own" email with them; setting up all of my web site clients there. I've set up Postfix on my servers to use these accounts as a SMTP relay and let the MXroute folks worry about (the endless worries involving) spam and IP cleanliness.

 

[twouvakind]

Proton, take the opportunity to rid ones self of the Google eco system and support a great cause.

 

[admzn]

Do you/ your workplace have an IP range that was able to get whitelisted by the major email players? I know sometimes they'll blacklist an entire range - which might encompass the one IP you're using legitimately - because some knuckleheads are spamming from another address(es) within that range.

Even the most die-hard self-hosters I know have given up on self-hosting email; but it seems like you might have a distinct advantage here with the ability to self-host from a data centre.

I have an account with MXroute and host my "own" email with them; setting up all of my web site clients there. I've set up Postfix on my servers to use these accounts as a SMTP relay and let the MXroute folks worry about (the endless worries involving) spam and IP cleanliness.

Realized that I missed this reply!

Yes we have a static /27 block of IPs that we probably only use 10 of. The rest have literally never been used in years so they are as clean as can be. I have never had problems sending to G workspace or MS accounts. I deal with a lot of people using MS365 and never have a problem. TBH if a business is using @gmail.com address, I don't really take them seriously.

Before moving it to my workplace I did self host at home, I have a business grade connection from bell (was DSL but finally upgraded to gig fiber, woohoo), with a static IP. I only moved it to the office because we were planning on moving soon and didn't want to take it down for that.

Full disclosure; I work in IT. Recently upgraded from my old dell PE R520 to a T430 with SSDs. Backups go offsite to my house where my NAS is.

 

[alarmguy]

Proton, take the opportunity to rid ones self of the Google eco system and support a great cause.

Yup, spam free, ad free and secure. For me, it's the nice clean interface, free of ads even with the free account.

Second place for me goes to free outlook mail because is makes getting rid of unwanted spam and emails really easy with its "Sweep" tab.

Im out of googles ecosystem as much as I know anyway.