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> while Migadu may be a Swiss company, the data centers where the mails are hosted were in France

> So the situation is somewhat comparable (not entirely though) to Fastmail being an Australian company with data centers in the U.S. being used

I don't know if it is a good comparison, as European countries (France included) are subject to GDPR, which does not really have an equivalent in the U.S.

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GP here. My points were about surveillance arrangements and information exchange between countries, like the Five Eyes, Nine Eyes, Fourteen Eyes, etc. Also, as far as I know, Migadu does not encrypt data at rest. Anyone who gets access to the servers gets access to all the data.

They have a great FAQ explaining that and I agree with their conclusion - all the encryption claims by other providers are nonsense and don't offer real protection.

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