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22 Jan 2014, 11:34 PM | #1 |
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Runbox.com / Posteo.de
I am hesitating between Runbox.com and Posteo.de. Which one provides better service and is more secure? Or is there even any better European provider with all servers located in Europe (for approximately the same rate)?
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22 Jan 2014, 11:36 PM | #2 |
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23 Jan 2014, 12:02 AM | #3 |
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Well runbox = norwegian and not a part of the EUdSSR; posteo.de are german hipsters and politically left (wing) supporters and located in germany (a substate of the usa and member of the EUdSSR).
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23 Jan 2014, 07:44 AM | #4 | |
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I looked at Posteo.de and it does look a great service. However, the fact that you cant, at the current time, use your own domain with them, was a deal breaker for me. Hopefully, Posteo will reconsider this in future, as I would then be happyt o try them out |
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1 Sep 2014, 09:22 PM | #5 | |
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I would also give them a try if we could use our own domain.. |
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1 Sep 2014, 10:19 PM | #7 |
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2 Sep 2014, 06:59 PM | #8 | |
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They're asking 35euro for a standard yubikey (!!!!!) Lastpass asks for around 25euro for the same yubikey, and you get 1 year of premium in that price! They're trying to make serious money out of two factor authentication and that's just sad. I'm not gonna support them in any way. |
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7 Sep 2014, 12:38 AM | #9 |
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EuMX is also hosted in Europe, and has a lot of praise on this forum
Mail.ru seems to be getting more and more good comments and also is out of the US' preying eyes (to the furthest extent you can totally avoid a bit of spying) Mail.be is from Belgium and with servers in Belgium, I'm just not sure if they have any backup server outside of the EU. You can also get a domain (or free subdomain from .afraid.org or .eu.org) and use a free DNS provider in Europe to set up your own service on EU soil. Two PS'es: * a service openly left wing should not be an issue. People can be left wing ; some others may just use it because it's good service without caring about the political visions of the site ; and most of all the receiver of the email will likely not know and/or not care what the mail provider stands for. * as long as you email to people using Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail etc the efford to avoid preying US eyes is pointless. It'd only work if both sender and receiver use a provider outside of the States. |
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7 Sep 2014, 05:11 PM | #12 | |
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in my point of view, a mailprovider should be as independent as possible and not driven by political views. the german situation is more specific. if you are not into the leftgreen corner you are in the far right corner. there is no differentiation! strange but true. |
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13 Sep 2014, 07:06 PM | #13 | |
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All summarised I think there is little chance that using such service could lead to issues. Even if you support a certain political direction: nothing wrong with that. And wrongful assumptions would implicitly require the receiver of the email being fully aware of the backgrounds of the email providers, which is rarely the case. I'd not even look up the believes of a service, if it's safe and steady then it's fine by me. I never was asked the question which ideology my email provider was obeying to. |
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