I would love to see a video from Wendel on gmail migration. I’ve recently purchased three domains from Ipage (ID10ter.com, davisnetworkservices.com, neko3d.com) However Ipage limits each inbox to 500 megs.. not fun
Other than finding a domain you can live with, it would be nice to have my email hosted on a server that I control
I think the cost would be minimal when compared to hosted exchange. Currently Intermedia sells its service at $5.00 and inbox with 3 inbox's minimum, so that's $15.00 a month right there. As for the trouble... It seems like its always a pain to set up a new server for anything, that's why I really want Tek Syndicate to make an instructional video.
I think this is a question where it helps to list your goals.
Why do you want to change email provider?
Do you want to self host?
Do you want full control over the server (potentially expensive), or use a service that allows you to pay for what you use, or just a different provider that will manage the email service and allow you to use your domain (no email crawling like google)
Theres benefits and drawbacks for each way of doing it.
edit: I use gandi.net which give 5 addresses, 1k forwards and 1gb shared with each domain you have with them.
posteo.de is the awesomest mail service, all renewable energy powered servers, staff doesn't come to work by car but by public transportation or bicycle, the security features are all there, including perfect forward secrecy, strongest encryption, and they're not using CA's to identify and authenticate, so there is an infinitesimal chance of hijacked mail. Posteo is like a public interest initiative of the CEO of an IT company, and they pretty much charge cost, which is 1 EUR per month, and that includes WebDAV/CalDAV-based syncing. The servers are private and fully owned, the company is completely free of debt or allegiances, and they are based in Berlin Germany.
In Germany, the main federal cyberresearch administration, has recommended last week that full encryption of ALL data traffic over the Internet should be made mandatory. Let's hope the government follows up on that recommendation. If that is the case, data security takes a huge leap forward in Germany, it would mean that no plain text data traffic would pass through Germany any more.
ya but for 5 bucks a month you can rent a digital ocean server and setup your email server. sure you need a domain(i would imagine anyway) and a CA signed SSL certificate but those are pretty cheap honestly. wendell had made comment about doing this on a linode server and its similar to digital ocean. so maybe if he made the video on how to do it. i think many people would do it
Im not up to date but Germany is a weird one, they have a lot of strict privacy laws but snoop on people too. It sucks, at least they're not trying to push through snooping laws without notice like the UK before the EU makes rules disallowing this.
Then again remember. Law does not apply to the government, only everyone else. (whether this is legal or not)
There's also inventati.org, which is about the same level of security and privacy as posteo.de, but it's pretty underground if you know what I mean. If you don't mind that, or you can't afford 1 EUR/month for posteo, inventati will help you out. These guys are pretty political though, in a correct way as far as I can tell (it's not like they're revolutionaries or that they support direct action groups), but also sometimes in a fanatical way, and back in the day when they were the only service that really offered this kind of thing, it was great, but these days, I would definitely expect that they are in the search light of some acronym organizations.
Inventati used to be invite only, and had a pretty good filtering going on, but since last year or so, they're open to everyone, which means that either they like to live dangerously, or that they've been compromised... you decide for yourself.
Just like posteo, inventati cannot read your encrypted mails, and they don't care about your identity. Whereas posteo requires at least a money order tied to your account, and then throws away the money order note, so that the trace is gone (but by that tile it has been intercepted already by the BND, let there be no doubt about that!!! But the only thing they'll know, is that you have an account at posteo, they can't do anything with it if you're a skilled and disciplined open source software user), inventati doesn't crosscheck donations and accounts, thet count on the honesty and the sense of community of the members to actually donate when they use the services, and they provide pretty extensive services, all entirely anonymous. You could for instance donate with a money order to the sister organization, autistici, and it would be nearly impossible to associate your inventati account to your anonymous donation to autistici. But I probably shouldn't be posting this, it's just not something that everybody should know really, it's only for those that care for particular things, and have a pretty clear idea about why they believe what they believe I guess, because sometimes, being convinced of something, even if you're right, can be an expensive tendency...
Posteo.de looks attractive. Thanks Zoltan I may just migrate my stuff to there. I was originally going to use Protonmail.ch which is based in switzerland but I've been on waiting list for over a year now and still have no account. It's free of charge so they are extremely limited in resources. And if not then I don't know what is going on with them.
EDIT: I forgot to mention Darkmail.net which is a project made by the same guy who owned Lavabit and was for forced by the US government to shut down. However to get an account you first need to join some dodgy forum and "bum-lick" everyone until they approve of you.
Something along the lines of Oneplus one purchase procedure.
I don't feel like reading the whole thread, but iPage sucks. It's an EIG (Endurance International) company. For cheap email hosting that doesn't suck try MxRoute. No, I don't work for them: https://mxroute.com/