I’m happy with fastmail. Remember that must people you email are probably on Google (Gmail) so there is only so much you can accomplish in terms of email privacy whatever you do.

Check out Posteo. It’s affordable and focuses on privacy.

Posteo, mailbox.org, Tuta.

• https://posteo.de/en

• https://mailbox.org/en/ (can have your own custom domain)

• https://tuta.com/ (can have your own custom domain but like Proton you cannot use K9-mail app and similar)

What’s your objection to Proton? You don’t have to use any of the other products, and the free tier is perfectly usable last I checked (granted many years ago). Not sure what your concern is

Edit: downvoting without replying doesn’t tell us what the concern is. Y’all weird

I 💜 Protonmail. I generally like proton as a company.This video has really gained my trust for them as a privacy focussed services provider.

Let me recommend Migadu, as email privacy is kind of a difficult topic. They offer complete email freedom for a very reasonable price; $20 ($10 for students) a year. They explain my main reasoning why I would avoid Proton:

When an email provider rations email address of your own domain name-space at a fee, they are asking you to hand them over control of your name-space. There is zero cost associated with additional email addresses and it is time you learn about it.

When email provider does not offer you standard email protocols that work with standard email clients, they want to lock you in for good. You are tied to using the dedicated applications offered by provider. The freedom of using a better or more suitable application is taken away from you. Protocols were standardized for a reason and today there are hundreds of email clients built for users with different needs.

When email provider alters messages data in non-standard format, they deny you data portability and with it freedom of changing providers.

Email is a collective effort of messaging interoperability. It is built around open, public standards and runs mostly on open source software maintained by folks believing in an open Internet, privacy and personal freedoms. Let’s not give away our freedoms for some Kool-Aid.

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I recently switched to skiff from proton as the skiff’s free tier is offering what proton’s mail plus plan. And now they are shutting down their services.

Plus one for Proton, I don’t use their password manager, but their other products I’ve been using and been pleased with. I consider it well worth the cost.

I found http://mxroute.com/ they offer sane prices for unlimited emails and domains. I’m in the middle of switching to them.

Been using Tuta for a few years and its great. Can use catch-all with my own Domain

Linux, dovecot, postfix and a large quantity of pain medication.

Proton, Tuta, or mailbox.org are good choices.

In my humble opinion, unless you use your account only to receive emails but also to send them, your provider has limited effect on your privacy. That’s why I personally don’t have a use for Tuta, Proton and other similar, super private services (mind you, I’m not saying they aren’t good). That said, I’ve been a happy customer of mailbox.org for quite a few years and I found them reliable and cheap (if you don’t need a custom domain). Same for Posteo, I guess. At the moment, I’m a paying customer for Zoho email, with quite a few custom domains abd I’m fairly happy. They have a free tier as well and their privacy policy looks good to me.

If you don’t need anonymity you could just buy a domain with a single email and use your own email app SMTP. I think it’s cheaper than most email providers.