Wondering what email provider folks who care about privacy would recommend. I'm leaning towards Proton Mail.
@shelley yup I use ProtonMail. There’s also Tutanota
@blueberry Yea I need to dive more into the differences between those two...thanks.
@shelley @blueberry Are you using a desktop or phone? For phone, #Tutanota is better because it has an app on f-droid.org (#Protonmail does not.. you'd have to get it from #Google #Playstore which is a privacy nightmare). If desktop, #Protonmail has #ElectronMail, which is a 3rd party FOSS app that avoids having to trust on-the-fly javascript. Tutanota no longer works with Electronmail.
@resist1984 @blueberry that's a nuance I don't yet understand, but it helps me shift my preference to proton for my first foray outside of gmail.
@resist1984 @shelley @blueberry
You can get the official protonmail apk from https://protonapps.com/
They use a different domain to prevent the site from being blocked.
You can also get it by adding this repo by @IzzyOnDroid to f-droid
https://android.izzysoft.de/repo
And I think I read somewhere that you can encrypt and password protect your email from Tutanota to other email providers.... Not sure though 🤔
@mesh4545 @IzzyOnDroid @blueberry @shelley protonapps.com is a #CloudFlare site, which is also privacy abusive. Shame on #Protonmail for using CF. Izzy's site must the best repo to have PM. But note as well that Izzy's repo does not strictly have a FOSS-only rule, so you always have to check the license field. And indeed in this case it's good: https://android.izzysoft.de/repo/apk/ch.protonmail.android
@resist1984 Oh, I didn't know that...
Not only that. ProtonMail web client uses Web Key Directory to automatically fetch users keys via HTTPS. So one can just put their key on their server and Proton will get it when the user is composing an e-mail. Really nice as the user doesn’t need to do anything manually (but they still can if they want to).
@blueberry @shelley note as well that if you need to reach external users securely, you can add their #PGP key to your Protonmail address book to securely email them. You cannot do the same with #Tutanota.