privacyfish

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This is the official Mastodon account for https://privacy.fish, a private email service hosted in Norway. We focus on uncompromising privacy and data minimization. There is no webmail, no passwords and no IMAP or POP3. Access works only via SSH keys through our open-source client. All mail is age-encrypted with your SSH public key and automatically deleted after 14 days if not downloaded. We run no analytics, trackers or logs. All code is open source at github.com/privacy-fish.

Germany winding down De-Mail is a useful reminder: secure email projects do not succeed just because they have legal backing or official branding.

For users, the hard parts are trust, daily usability, clear threat models, and what data still sits with the provider.

Private email should be honest about those tradeoffs instead of hiding behind a seal of approval.

https://www.heise.de/en/background/De-Mail-Delivery-Fiction-with-Pitfalls-11305293.html

De-Mail: Delivery Fiction with Pitfalls

By late 2026, the final legal step will be taken to withdraw De-Mail, a 2012 service. The system failed against reality.

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