Electronic mail (or e-mail, or email) is an internet service that allows people who have an e-mail address (account) to send and receive electronic letters.
They are much like postal letters, except they are delivered much faster than snail mail over long distances, and are usually “free”.
Like with regular mail, users may get unwanted mail. With e-mail, this is called spam.
Hosting
10 minute e-mail
Free temporary email:
CounterMail
Secure and easy to use online email service, designed to provide maximum security and privacy without any unnecessary complexity
Disposable e-mails
Disposable temporary e-mail address:
MailBox
E-mail from 1 per month
Hosted in Germany
€1 | €3 | €9/ month
MailFence
Secure and private email
0 | 2,5 € | 7,5 € | 25 €/ month
Migadu
Email service for domains, made in Switzerland:
Your emails are your own business. We have no interest in them.
Posteo
Green, secure, ad-free
Hosted in Frankfurt, Bielefeld and Berlin
€1 per month
ProtonMail
Secure email, based in Switzerland
0 | €5 | €8 | €30/ month
Soverin
A private mailbox that’s truly yours
Hosted in Amsterdam Nederlands
€3,25 per month
StartMail
StartMail is a private email service developed by the creators of Startpage
Based in The Netherlands and complies with EU GDPR privacy laws
Tutanota
Secure email for everybody:
Tools
Aerc
A pretty good email client
An email client that runs in your terminal. It’s highly efficient and extensible, perfect for the discerning hacker
Maddy e-mail
Maddy Mail Server implements all functionality required to run a e-mail server. It can send messages via SMTP (works as MTA), accept messages via SMTP (works as MX) and store messages while providing access to them via IMAP. In addition to that it implements auxiliary protocols that are mandatory to keep email reasonably secure (DKIM, SPF, DMARC, DANE, MTA-STS).
It replaces Postfix, Dovecot, OpenDKIM, OpenSPF, OpenDMARC and more with one daemon with uniform configuration and minimal maintenance cost.
Mail-in-a-Box
Take back control of your email with this easy-to-deploy mail server in a box
Become your own mail service provider in a few easy steps. Like making your own gmail, but one you control from top to bottom
- https://mailinabox.email
- https://discourse.mailinabox.email
- https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox
NeoMutt
NeoMutt is a project of projects
Command line mail reader (or MUA). It’s a fork of Mutt with added features.
Forwarding
33Mail
Unlimited private email aliases
Create a new e-mail address whenever you need one. Maintain complete control over active addresses. Forwards all mail to your existing e-mail address.
AnonAddy
Anonymous Email Forwarding
Create Unlimited Email Aliases For Free
0 | $1 | $3
Forward Email
Free email forwarding
Create unlimited email addresses for free using your custom domain
Plus get catch-all, wildcard, and disposable aliases - all for free
SimpleLogin
Protect your privacy with email aliases
With email aliases, you can finally create a different identity for each website. Defend against spams, phishing and data breach.
0 | $30/ year or $4/ month
Articles
offline e-mail setup from Drew Devault (aerc, isync/ mbsync):
https://drewdevault.com/2021/05/17/aerc-with-mbsync-postfix.html
German secure email provider Tutanota forced to monitor an account, after regional court ruling
https://news.yahoo.com/german-secure-email-provider-tutanota-112514196.html
ProtonMail shows why your data won’t ever be private under any “Orderly” jurisdiction
https://マリウス.com/protonmail-shows-why-your-data-wont-ever-be-private-under-any-orderly-jurisdiction
Wiki
- https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail
- https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Email
- https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Email_storage_formats
- https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Email
- https://wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_email
- https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail
- https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Email
- https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Email_storage_formats
- https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Email
- https://wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_email