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Please no. I just started using ProtonMail and plan to lower my usage of gmail... I don't want other clients held to an arbitrary standard of email

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ProtonMail may not be the best choice if you're a stickler for standards. Their service unapologetically works only within ProtonMail. Send an e-mail to someone with a different provider and they get a link to a https view of the email.

Thanks, though I set it up yesterday mostly for receiving, I don't plan to send anything from it

Is there another email provider that isn't hotmail, gmail or yahoo mail with good prospects at the moment?

https://www.fastmail.com/

A good free one?

If you rely on email, it's worth paying for.

I'm a paying Fastmail customer, and it's worth every cent.

I'm paying as well for my personal account.

But, I am having a hard time justifying switching my entire family over. A family of 4 is $20/mth, that's 25% of the cost of my internet connection and seems rather steep.

You can try Yandex Mail [1]. I haven't used it to tell you more but they have good reputation for their service and you can connect it to your own domain [2] for free.

[1] https://mail.yandex.com

[2] https://domain.yandex.com/

pobox.com has also been around a good long while; as low as $20 a year for forwarding, and $50/year for a mailbox.

FastMail on the other hand is a closer equivalent to Google, supporting caldav and carddav for Calendars and Contacts; although as a downside you'll have to configure 3 accounts on iOS to get Mail/Contacts/Calendars via IMAP/CardDav/CalDav if I'm not mistaken.

For encrypted emails, yes. Not for regular emails.

They don't support PGP (Does Gmail?) at the moment, but are apparently working on it. What other approaches are there?

Not in the web interface, no.

But you're free to use any client with GPG support – the beauty of open standards. There should also be browser plugins that add it to the web interface.

I wonder ... can you use javascript in HTML email ? Why not just include a PGP client ? You'd still need your key but why not make a standard for that ?

JS isn't allowed in email.

(JS crypto also has issues.)

>Does Gmail?

Sort of, with a Chrome extension: https://security.googleblog.com/2014/06/making-end-to-end-en...

(I've never used it)

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