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Re:Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox ... by MidnightRider39 on Friday April 03, 2026 @07:59AM (#47625692)
Posteo is really good - switched there years ago from gmail and never looked back.
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Re:Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox ... by unnervingduck on Friday April 03, 2026 @08:33AM (#47625956)
I was looking into Posteo a while back but was turned off by the recycling of addresses. After leaving the service it's available to anyone after a fixed time.
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Re:Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox ... by xigoi on Friday April 03, 2026 @01:51PM (#47629764)
Posteo does not allow custom domains, which is an immediate nope from me. E-mail is the last place where I want vendor lock-in.
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Re:Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox ... by MidnightRider39 on Friday April 03, 2026 @05:02PM (#47632234)
I use my custom email address and forward to posteo, for me there is little to no lock-in; I could go to another service tomorrow and wouldn’t have to change anything
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Re:Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox ... by xigoi on Saturday April 04, 2026 @02:29AM (#47636430)
Doesn’t that require a different e-mail service, which defeats the point of using Posteo?
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