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I wonder why nobody has mentioned tutanota as an alternative in this thread. It's not too expensive and quite safe as far as I'm aware. If anyone knows a downside to it please share it with us.

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Not really the same, you have to use their clients to access your email (and doesn't seem to have a bridge like Protonmail) so you are effectively locked in

I was a paying Tutanota customer for two full years, but ended up cancelling recently. Reasons being lack of IMAP (ProtonMail does), slow development, [missing features](https://old.reddit.com/r/tutanota/search?q=missing&restrict_...) yet their focus is on building quantum cryptography defense, and most importantly, their recent change in domain limit. It used to be unlimited on the 12 EUR plan, but without any announcement to the end-user, they limited that to 1. They [fixed that later](https://old.reddit.com/r/tutanota/comments/lwr2ag/important_...) but I no longer trust their business practices.

What does "user" mean with tutanota? If I want multiple custom domains, I need to go with the business account, which has a 1 GB storage limit and a 5 aliases limit. And then it is only for a single user. Does that mean, I cannot have independent login data for the multiple domains/mailboxes I create? Because then it is not close to a viable alternative to migadu.

You can have an independent login account but that comes at an additional cost of 12 EUR. That's on the top of the Business plan's cost of 12 EUR + 12 EUR.

Okay, then that defeats the purpose of why _I_ chose Migadu, where there is no limit on the login accounts.

Tutanota ain't very safe

https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/08/german-secure-email-provid...

Is there reason to believe other mail providers aren't subject to the same kind of court order?

Yes, if they are not headquartered in Germany.

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