I'm currently on one of the large IT company's email provider. It's driving me nuts as it's constantly thinking there's suspicious activity on my account, probably because I'm using TOR, and then challenges me with a code it texts to my phone. And then every once in a while it thinks my password might be compromised and makes me change it. I never want to be forced to change my password. I will handle the security (password) for my account.
They also read my email as I've received calendar reminders of an upcoming flight and there's no way they would have known that without reading my email. They of course think they're doing me a favor, but I don't need any favors from them. I'd rather they not have access to my emails.
And I don't mind paying a reasonable amount for a good secure email provider who believes in privacy.
I found this site and it appears to have some good info:
mail.tutanota.com
mail.protonmail.com
I will handle the security (password) for my account. <---- this is a great mindset to have. Don't ever reveal personal information on the internet. If you sign up somewhere do so anonymously. If they require an SMS, be prepared to walk away if you can't get a tempSMS to work, because that's your database primary key that can be used to quickly and easily query everything you have ever done.
By SMS are you referring to a phone number for text messaging? If so, what's a tempSMS?
sms is a cell phone for text messaging. The idea here is everyone who has a cell phone has a unique phone # (primarykey), which is mostly only used by that person.
This is why they request SMS #'s and reject home phone #'s (which are weaker links to people since many people can use them - big tech wants those primarykeys because the likelihood of identifying you is high)
TempSMS = burner sms # websites you can find by searching for "temporary sms", and plug in, and hope they work (it's mostly miss, but you can sometimes get a hit after a lot of persistence).
Note: cell phones also have IMEI (phone hardware) and SIM (telco card) numbers too which could be used to find the purchaser (you). So the best bet is to never use a cell phone, they are tracking devices in more ways than one.
Unfortunately it appears proton mail might behave as my current provider is behaving:
https://proton.me/support/compromised-account-temporarily-locked
ditto that
It's so secure, if you forget your password, when you do a new one, you won't be able to even read your own prior emails :)
Unfortunately it appears proton mail might behave as my current provider is behaving:
https://proton.me/support/compromised-account-temporarily-locked
Unfortunately it appears proton mail might behave as my current provider is behaving:
https://proton.me/support/compromised-account-temporarily-locked
Yeah, and two-factor authentication means they have captured your mobile and now can ID you and data mine you
There's really only a couple options...
Tutanota or Proton.me
Your third option is to handle yourself and I doubt you'll want to do that as you'll hit plenty of walls all over the place if you try, but it's still an option.
I just paid proton for their two year package that has 500 gigs for email and anything else and it's working out great. If you're looking for something cheap and without bells and whistles, just email, either of the two mentioned above is fine. I found tutanota a little off tune for what I was looking for and proton fit my needs better.
Unfortunately it appears proton mail might behave as my current provider is behaving:
https://proton.me/support/compromised-account-temporarily-locked
I'm not sure why you'd trigger any of that unless you're doing something very weird. I haven't experienced anything of the sort with them. At least not yet, anyway...
Everything on that URL you've pointed out is behavior I'd like to have as a precaution in case someone is trying to compromise my account... Tutanota might or might not do any of that but I'm not sure...
I do know that if nothing fits your bill, you can host your own email server. That you will have all control over, except for your ISP...
As I said, it could be my use of the TOR browser. Or maybe when they think my password has been compromised and force me to change it, I do via my desktop but probably don't, or not for a while, update it on my mobile phone as I usually don't read email on my phone. The point is that I will control the password security on my account. I don't want the provider to force me to change my password.
By the way, no one is going to guess my password so I'm not really worried about someone hacking in.
Yeah, I get what you're saying - I'd probably wind up running some sort of Thunderbird instance with all the security parameters set and just access that in a secure way. Maybe try to figure a way to proxy that concept >>
Email provider >> more "static" client to do the email (imap/pop3 whatever crap) >> proxy off that somehow
That way maybe you can just find any email provider that'll be much cheaper and do what you will with that... I put static in quotes because something about what you're doing is tripping things off somehow and maybe you can fine tune things to get it so whatever that thing that's getting tripped is, you can overcome it.
I don't use tor often and am no expert in that realm, I did notice proton saying how they support that too but it looks like it's more around their web interface... Again, not an expert so I'd say you'd have to research it more...
Tutanota might be best for it all too. For my situation though, they just didn't offer quite what I was looking for so it was proton for me...