"Smaller" in this case just means smaller, not newer. They've been in business for a long time, and I expect them to be around for a while. The downsides tend to be in the opposite direction: they're old, and their webmail/account management interface until recently showed its age. This was not a problem in my book; I don't use webmail. The greater concern with mail providers involves the risk that they would pull something like what Gmail did and withdraw from offering standards-based email (i.e. no more IMAP). In that respect, what the sluggishness to get with the trends really means is a lower risk rate of churn, and I'm happy with that.

Your profile doesn't list a way to contact you privately.

As of last year, it's supposed to be one of the services listed on <https://www.fsf.org/resources/webmail-systems>, but it's not. I just reached out to Greg Farough to follow up on why.

Thanks, that FSF link might be good enough. (I don't want to identify this account and don't immediately know how to set up an anonymous throwaway email)

By the way, according to my Mail's connection doctor on mac, it appears to use IMAP when talking to gmail as of now. I wasn't aware Google was phasing out proper IMAP support, my concern was more about them being known to ban accounts with little recourse.

I’m always interested in discovering paid service email providers who respect privacy. Could you please email me the provider name/URL on my temp email listed on my profile? Thanks.