Lemmings, your thoughts on Fastmail vs Proton Mail?

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Lemmings, your thoughts on Fastmail vs Proton Mail? - Lemmy

Looks like FM is proprietary (?), is based in a 5-eyes country, and has its servers in the US, but, uh, apart from that . . . ?

Honestly, just assume email is an inherently weak protocol in regards to privacy and work from there. So I would suggest getting the cheaper one that fulfills your feature needs and work with E2E encryption like OpenPGP (which also has issues, beware!). Some providers offer encrypting incoming emails with your public key. If you want more secure interpersonal communication look elsewhere (e.g. Signal).