It's been fun, Gmail, but I think it may be time to go.
Not that I have anything to hide, but I don't like my protections being whittled away.
Any suggestions on what provider to seek out now? Lavabit?
Not that I have anything to hide, but I don't like my protections being whittled away.
Any suggestions on what provider to seek out now? Lavabit?
Most email providers will comply with search warrants on individuals, regardless of the government.
Hosting it yourself requires quite a bit of effort and knowledge to achieve high deliverability and low spam. Any solution is going to require you to be a mail server admin, which isn't for the feint of heart. You can't really be a casual once-in-a-while admin to get good results.
Sometimes it is worth paying a hosting service to take care of these problems for you.
With that said, Zimbra is a wonderful, easy to setup, all-in-one solution (email, calendars, contacts, etc)... and it's free (the Open Source license version).[1]
It works for small setups (<5 users) all the way up to huge installations (Comcast uses Zimbra for it's webmail service).
Isn't that the same as what's happening here?
> Runbox will not disclose account information or email data to authorities unless presented with a court order issued by the country we do business in.
And then it becomes identical to this situation.