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:
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...