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Oh, bad timing. Just a few months ago I was on the fence about Protonmail vs Fastmail (vs all others) and ended jumping to Fastmail: the privacy pro didn't seem to outweigh the cons. Now with open sourcing stuff the pros do get somewhat better... But reevaluating and switching would be troublesome.... Maybe in a few years I'll revisit it :)

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The pricing is very different. Fastmail allows unlimited domains where proton is almost double the cost for two.

Does fastmail offer encrypted server side email though?

Well, not just pricing or privacy or domains, there's a lot that's different. That's why I mentioned weighing pros vs cons.

Yeah protonmail charging for the marginally free stuff, like domains and aliases is very disappointing. I make a new email for every account, in the form of catchall_alias@username.domain.com do I have to pay proton mail $24/month for that privilege?

Also not providing 20GB space as a default paid option in this day in age of $5/month/TB is also very disappointing.

I've been with ProtonMail a couple of years now, and recently made the step to buy my own domain to use for personal email. What I'm hoping is that whenever I want to switch provider in the future, it won't be any more trouble than to switch some DNS settings :)

The easiness to migrating away was one of the cons of Proton Mail to me, but I don't remember the exact reasons for it besides not using standard protocols. Having standard protocols really makes everything easier. With the open sourcing of the tools, maybe it will get better?

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