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Re:Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail? by zhte415 on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @04:36AM (#17448462)
For your privacy concerns, protonmail.com?

You can point your domain to it and use their web interface, or your preferred email app.

I wouldn't like to manage my own mail server either. While some people may be experienced at this, or enjoy the technical learning, email is just too important to me to trust myself with, so I prefer a 3rd party also.

Re:Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail? by blablabla123 on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @05:46PM (#17453830)
Protonmail is great. It has all features necessary but at the same time it's not creepy at all - like Gmail is.

Apart from that, in fact I have this long-term project to self-host all my stuff. So far I managed to do this only for my calendar (using Apple's CalDav server). E-Mail is my next goal but even if I have it running, I'll start transitioning slowly. After all I think it's not that much maintanance effort once it's setup as long as it's managed through Ansible or Docker.

Re:Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail? by kertis on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @08:56AM (#17456991)
Protonmail isn't bad, agree. But I don't like their mobile Android client because it can't group emails (each email even response is new one). But again I am using free version, so no complains. :)

Google mail is more feature-rich of course.

Re:Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail? by newscracker on Friday July 06, 2018 @05:48AM (#17470138)
It's still cumbersome or close to impossible to move out of Protonmail along with one's emails. The IMAP support is still in beta, and has been under consideration for a few years now. The easiest way to move out of Protonmail is to abandon one's emails there and start afresh somewhere else.
Re:Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail? by uncle_d on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @05:22AM (#17448677)
Seconded - I am also very happy with ProtonMail.
Re:Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail? by GLjEI4YbnGD27LB on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @06:10AM (#17448951)
Thirded, I too am quite happy enough with protonmail I decided to pay for their service.
Re:Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail? by DEADBEEFC0FFEE on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @07:06AM (#17449172)
Fourthed. I can see me transitioning, so far so good.
Re:Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail? by scruple on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @01:49PM (#17452257)
Here, as well. Very happy with protonmail.
Re:Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail? by wowtip on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @07:51AM (#17456676)
I have a free Protonmail account set up since a couple of years back. But I found the lack of calendar always pushed me back to G Apps. I think the search functionality also was a bit lacking.
Re:Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail? by maxk42 on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @04:58PM (#17453573)
I've been using Protonmail for quite a while. It's excellent.