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10 Apr 2015, 05:54 AM | #1 | |
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Posteo Crypto Mail
Just received this to my inbox today:
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10 Apr 2015, 06:52 AM | #2 |
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This is a really good move in my opinion.
Posteo.de is becoming a really good e-mail provider. Sadly, they do not support own domains and do not plan to do it. That allied with the rather slow/weak webclient has not made me purchase an account, but that might change soon. |
10 Apr 2015, 03:29 PM | #3 |
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Thank you for these news
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10 Apr 2015, 08:05 PM | #4 | |
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They've added another grey theme for it, and are adding more, so there'll be more to choose soon. But functionality is fantastic. And what i like most is that a business can be conscious, and still be sustainable, and well, business. And the yearly transparency report is really a humongous + in my book. |
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10 Apr 2015, 08:15 PM | #5 | |
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About the webclient: It's not that it's slow, but it's not as fluid as FastMail's. Nothing is as good as FM's webclient though. I might have made a bad move by buying an account with FM. I am now used to them and it's very very hard to find an alternative... EDIT: They should also allow the use of more aliases for free. Last edited by 17pm : 10 Apr 2015 at 08:24 PM. |
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11 Apr 2015, 02:32 AM | #6 |
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I am moving to them, I like the new features.
I understand what 17pm is saying, FM is very fast and Posteo is slow with Roundcube but not all is about being fast, and I prefer Posteo, FM has dissapointed me. Posteo offers great features if you love security, but yes: only 2 free aliases. I love encryption in servers, Dane, plugin to use pgp, real 2FA and many other features |
11 Apr 2015, 06:05 AM | #7 |
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Privacy v common good
Posteo is a very interesting provider. I looked at them a little while back and thought the interface was indeed a bit slow and clunky ( I am in Europe) . This latest addition though raises the bar again and I may take another look.
One thing that has been bothering me a bit recently as I read more and more of the contributions here at Email Discussions is the whole privacy thing. With more providers (not just Posteo) providing encryption , anonymous payment, setup etc I wonder whether the "bad guys" are naturally going to be attracted to these providers. I do not really want to be rubbing shoulders with the bad guys . By supporting these "extreme" privacy providers , albeit for perfectly legitimate "normal" privacy concerns, are we in fact facilitating the bad guys by providing them with a tool for nefarious purposes ? |
11 Apr 2015, 02:30 PM | #8 |
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No, because authorities can always get the future data if a judge considers there are enough proofs against some person, this is normal and good. What it's not: monitoring all people emails even without a subpoena, as other email providers do or allow. These features are against attacks sniffing connections while you are online (man in the middle attacks), against bad people reaching the server to get your data, etc and this is always good.
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15 Apr 2015, 01:06 AM | #9 |
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What jl66 said.
If you read through the transparency report, you'll see Posteo had to comply with some subpoenas. |
26 Apr 2015, 10:02 PM | #10 |
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This is good news. I have just activated it on my account. I moved to Posteo from Runbox because I have given up on Runbox ever implementing 2FA this century and their webmail is the worst.
For 1€ per month Posteo is unbeatable in my view. |
27 Apr 2015, 12:41 AM | #11 |
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I did it too!, and waiting for Runbox until I finish my subscription at the end of this year to decide if I continue or not... I love posteo
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27 Apr 2015, 03:10 AM | #12 | |
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I am thinking about joining posteo but without supporting the use of our own domains, I don't think I will. |
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27 Apr 2015, 03:48 AM | #13 | |
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Can I use Posteo with my own domains? No, this is not possible. We certainly understand that having your own domain is very important in the commercial industries. But a domain needs to be registered to the name and address of an individual. If we offered this, we would need to save the registration details of everyone who uses their own domain with Posteo and to provide these to the Federal Network Agency to be provided on request to the authorities. This would still be the case even if only the MX record pointed to us. We have therefore decided not to offer this possibility and instead to use data economy. It is, however, possible to add various other email addresses with external domains as senders in the webmail interface and thereby to send emails with Posteo using external domains. In order to be able to read replies to these messages, you need to set up forwarding to Posteo for the external address. |
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27 Apr 2015, 04:30 AM | #14 |
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I know that, but I find their stance a bit hypocrite. Privacy is not binary, it's a spectrum.
They accept payments made by paypal/credit-card. For the same reasoning they use to reject the use of own domains, shouldn't they allow only payments by bitcoin/money? They're not forcing people to encrypt the emails, they're however forcing people not to use their domains. Sure using my own domain might not be perfect, privacy wise. But I would still get to encrypt my e-mails and so on. I'd be better off using posteo with my own domain then any other provider.. Also, domains for business is pretty much a must. Last edited by 17pm : 27 Apr 2015 at 03:32 PM. |
27 Apr 2015, 06:33 AM | #15 |
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Well, they don't link payments to particular accounts to ensure privacy, and with domains I understand that it's an obligation to provide the personal data. I don't know very much about it anyway.
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