Awesome email

A community maintained and organized list of reputable, reliable and (reasonably) private¹ e-mail providers.

All of these services, except Posteo, support custom domains — using a custom domain that you own is typically recommended for portability. Should something happen to your provider, you can update your MX records, import your mail and move on.

Provider	Link	Location
Fastmail	https://fastmail.com	Australia
Proton	https://proton.me	Switzerland
Tutanota	https://tutanota.com	Germany
Mailbox.org	https://mailbox.org	Germany
Posteo	https://posteo.de	Germany
Mailfence	https://mailfence.com	Belgium
Runbox	https://runbox.com	Norway
Soverin	https://soverin.net	Netherlands
Startmail	https://startmail.com	Netherlands
Migadu	https://www.migadu.com	Switzerland
Hushmail	https://www.hushmail.com	Canada
Kolabnow	https://kolabnow.com	Switzerland

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1. Email is typically about as private as a postcard given its distributed nature but, do your research and choose the best provider for your particular threat model. ↩︎