1w ago

Privacy concious mail provider with no account creation limitation on free plans?

I know it's a long shot, but I had about five proton accounts that have just been shut down for violating there account number TOS. And I was just wondering if there were any mail providers for free that have no limits and are decent on the privacy front? Thanks in advance for any help!

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33mail.com gives you a subdomain that you can put any username on. So user@basiclemmon98.33mail.com it will all redirect to your mail address.
Depends on you use case. Idk if they are really privacy conscious specifically.
one account with 5 aliases won't help?
You should be using an alias anyway, either with anonaddy or simplelogin (associated with Proton Mail) who are both free, and at least in addy's case, allows pgp encryption. Why do you need 5 mail accounts instead of aliases?
- I was trying to make sure that if one got breached for any reason, only some of my non email accounts were compromised. I'm not sure if that's overkill though.
  
  Breached as in the Proton email getting breached, or as in Simplelogin/anonaddy getting breached?
  If it's the former, email aliases are your best bet, as you can easily change who they forward to, so if your main email got breached somehow it could be changed quickly. Plus using aliases lessens the risk of hackers knowing about your actual email anyway. The aliases are meant to be meat shields/masks for your real email when a company gets breached/sells your data.
  Now, if we're talking the alias provider getting breached, then it becomes a who do you trust more issue. Proton owns simplelogin, and has performed well in audits, so I'd say for now they're safe to trust security-wise. Anonaddy has a page listing the security methods they use and passed an audit in 2023, but you could self host it if you want to.
  I'm feeling like multiple Proton emails is overkill. You would be biting the bullet anyway by having an email get breached, so I'd save the hassle (for Proton too) and just use an alias service.
There's addy.io aliases option
I know it’s a long shot, but I had about five proton accounts that have just been shut down for violating there account number TOS.
How did they even know? Did you not clear cookies before switching accounts?
- IP logging? I'm not sure exactly.
Consider self hosting, use clouflare to hide?
Cloudflare tunnels and use a VPs, host your own email. Mailcow.email makes it all very non scary

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