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If you need strong privacy, then go to ProtonMail.

Otherwise, try https://yandex.com. For personal domains you can use https://connect.yandex.com, which is free (with ads) for unlimited users or $3 per user per month (available in several countries) without ads.

I've been using Yandex Connect for quite long time (free and paid). They are very good.

Yandex Connect goes with Email (fully unlimited), Cloud Storage, Wiki and Simple Messenger. There is also an option to control domain's DNS, but it's optional.

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> Otherwise, try https://yandex.com.

Hahah. Left google for KGB - 100% profit.

Yandex offers an excellent free email service indeed.

What I really like is their free support for custom domains which you need if you later want to move to another email provider later or if you want to create many user email accounts within your domain (say, info@mydomain.com and user@mydomain.com): https://connect.yandex.com/

I tried signing up for yandex a few months ago. I made an account, and I was able to gain access to their email service. However, I couldn't actually receive mail or send mail that went anywhere. From what I can tell, there's no guarantee they will actually activate your account when you sign up.

Yandex is a Russian mail-service. I wouldn't trust them. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13274443

Let's be honest: Any company must comply with local authorities in any country they work in.

I'm pretty sure, that we can find such article about any major US based service and FBI/NSA/etc, for example. Same for major services from Europe. Because of this I pointed to ProtonMail before going further.

By the way, this article is about "Yandex's online payment service" (this service can be compared to PayPal), which is owned by Yandex only for 25%, other 75% is being owned by the biggest bank in Russia, which is owned by governance (just to clarify: Yandex is not).

US companies, in worst case, comply with democratic authorities. The whole separation of powers thing in US seem to work pretty well.

Also, Yandex's founder did make it to anti-Putin-sphere personal sanctions list..

Be careful, Russian secret services have an official access to all communication on their servers. If your threat model includes bad actors from Russia — it's a no go.

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