Is Gmail still the go-to email provider for generic email addresses? Looking to create an email account for a new position. Which would be best out of Gmail, Proton, Fastmail? Doesn’t need to be tied to a domain, so happy to use the default. |
Is Gmail still the go-to email provider for generic email addresses? Looking to create an email account for a new position. Which would be best out of Gmail, Proton, Fastmail? Doesn’t need to be tied to a domain, so happy to use the default. |
This is an issue not only with Proton Mail, but with other services in their ecosystem too. For example, you also can’t integrate Proton Calendar with the iOS Calendar app, because of the encryption.
And all of this is for no benefit, because your email won’t be fully E2E encrypted unless your recipient is also using Proton Mail. Most of your recipients will be using Gmail or Outlook, so at the end of the day Google/Microsoft will read your emails anyway.
I’m considering switching to Fastmail, Mailbox.org, or Migadu. If you need to send truly private emails, use PGP encryption.
I always found it unbelievable that Google, a company whose entire brand was built around search, built such a poorly-functioning search into their own mail product.
I always found this bad, because I can’t control when people title an email or put in the content. People who use really informal and non-descriptive email subjects drive me nuts. “Here you go”, “that thing you were asking about”, “important”… these are terrible email subjects and once they drift away from the top of the inbox they will be gone forever.
The main disadvantage though is the privacy you give up, and the expensive premium tier… if you ever need it
But for your personal email, as it were, Protonmail's proton.me is +1
I don't really get spam with Gmail anyway, and there was no compelling reason to switch.
Finding a document again was entirely down to search: title, author, date, meta data, full text.
I loved it. I was in a minority. I loved Gmail's search.