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  • Heedtheadvice
    Heedtheadvice Posts: 2,949 Forumite
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    edited 19 October 2025 at 8:36PM
    Mailfence.
    ( number three in the Wanderers linked list above )

    Based in Belgium who have strict laws on who can access you data.
    Free version and quite cheap paid version multiple emails addresses, can have your own domain, its security is a big plus. Can be end to end encrypted. 2FA, Digital signatures  has app and browser based  Pop and Imap and more supported.....and more.

    Probably not as glitzy looking as some. For me a much better presentation than Gmail.

    Had it happily for years and has great support if ever needed.

  • spud17
    spud17 Posts: 4,451 Forumite
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    Proton Mail.
    Move along, nothing to see.
  • Bigphil1474
    Bigphil1474 Posts: 3,913 Forumite
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    Can you not use yahoo? Had mine for years, no problems and the app is fine.
  • Neil49
    Neil49 Posts: 3,458 Forumite
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    Another vote for Proton Mail. Based in Switzerland. 
  • Tassie_Devil
    Tassie_Devil Posts: 114 Forumite
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    Tutamail, Protonmail. 
  • Grey_Critic
    Grey_Critic Posts: 1,773 Forumite
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    None of them are 100% safe no matter what they say. Anything that includes Microsoft in its name is dodgy.
  • Vitor
    Vitor Posts: 1,301 Forumite
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    IIRC Proton has left Switzerland due to their watering down of privacy laws.

  • flaneurs_lobster
    flaneurs_lobster Posts: 9,155 Forumite
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    Vitor said:
    IIRC Proton has left Switzerland due to their watering down of privacy laws.

    Not quite that dramatic yet, but CH is looking at legislation that would certainly be at odds with some of Proton's USP (around maintaining audit trails/logs) eg snooping.
  • bob2302
    bob2302 Posts: 655 Forumite
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    olb81 said:
    Can anyone recommend any email provider that's independent of things like Google?
    I don't want a Google account and just want an email account with user and password with a simple.interface.
    You might want to have a look at purelymail.com. It's not free, but it's very cheap, especially for domain hosting, which I would recommend if you want to move away from the big providers.
  • stinky_daddy
    stinky_daddy Posts: 454 Forumite
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    Bit late to the comments, but alongside my gmail account, I have yahoo, mail.com (several different email addresses), gmx (again several iterations), hotmail and googlemail.com

    HTH

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    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
    Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
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